{"id":3756,"date":"2011-09-09T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T20:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2011-09-09T15:34:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T20:34:52","slug":"meet-amazon-coms-first-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/meet-amazon-coms-first-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Amazon.com&rsquo;s First Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2011\/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1\">GeekWire<\/a> interviews Shel Kaphan:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2011\/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1\/3\"><p>I remember, at one point, Jeff was all excited that we call it Relentless with the idea that we would relentlessly satisfy customer needs or something. It took a little convincing that perhaps that was not going to have the right connotations in everybody&rsquo;s minds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is that worse than <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5447804\/the-blood+curdling-name-steve-jobs-wanted-for-the-imac\">MacMan<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2011\/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1\/3\"><p>One of the early controversies about the company is that we were claiming that we had a million titles. Well, we did have a million titles. We didn&rsquo;t have a million books, but we had a million titles in the sense that we could order them. We might find out that the publishers might take several months to get them to us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He says the company surpassed even Bezos&rsquo; expectations of size and scope.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeekWire interviews Shel Kaphan: I remember, at one point, Jeff was all excited that we call it Relentless with the idea that we would relentlessly satisfy customer needs or something. It took a little convincing that perhaps that was not going to have the right connotations in everybody&rsquo;s minds. Is that worse than MacMan? One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}