Posted by Jason Kottke on under amaz, h company, ppos, hsieh, specific company, steve jobs, rk, new yorker, snapshot, shoulders, cult, housewares, ty, pers, ceo, clothes, shoes, experiences | 
From last week's New Yorker, a snapshot of the cult of Zappos just before the Amazon acquisition. I found it somewhat odd that the CEO, Tony Hsieh, doesn't particularly care about the products his company sells:
"I've never been into shoes -- and I'm still not," he said. Zappos has begun to expand from shoes, as Amazon did from its base of books, into other categories of merchandise: handbags, clothes. "Kitchenware, housewares, whatever," Hsieh said. But he's not really interested in those things, either. "I much prefer experiences to stuff," he said.
Hsieh also doesn't downplay the cultish aspects of the company either (unintentionally or not):
Though he has become increasingly visible as the face of Zappos and spends almost all his time proselytizing its culture, Hsieh resists the idea that he is powerful, or that the perpetuation of the brand rests on his shoulders. "For any company or movement or religion or whatever, if there's one person that personifies it then that puts that company or vision at risk, if the person, say, dies," he said. "What's gonna happen to Apple if something happens with Steve Jobs? That's why it needs to be about a movement, not about a person or even a specific company."
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Posted by on under hector ruiz, small potatoes, checkered career, insider trading, h company, wall street journal, civil charges, spinoff, hec, hedge fund, fortunes, galle, scandal, amd, wall street, gadgets, ceo, salary, nbsp, investor |
Hector Ruiz certainly led a checkered career as CEO of AMD, earning the
highest CEO salary in the semiconductor industry as his company's
stock dropped, its
products dragged, and its
fortunes sank, but the man didn't stop there -- it turns out he was also involved in a little illegal insider trading on the side. According to the
Wall Street Journal, Ruiz is the heretofore unnamed AMD executive who illegally tipped off an investor at the Galleon Group hedge fund about the company's big
spinoff of Globalfoundries, ultimately leading to criminal and civil charges against Galleon and six of its employees. Ol' Hec's currently in the clear, as he hasn't been charged with anything, but considering he's now the CEO of Globalfoundries, well, let's say things are about to get a little sticky. We'll let you know -- we've got a feeling
Gizmondo's Stefan Eriksson is going to look like small potatoes when this is all over.
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Ex-AMD chief Hector Ruiz caught up in insider-trading scandal originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Love your Kindle? How about your Sony Reader? Good then lean in close because your electrophoretic display (EPD) maker wants to have a word. Prime View International (
PVI) chairman Scott Liu says that his company (the
owners of E Ink) will be introducing a wide variety of new e-reader displays this year including color, flexible, and touchscreen EPDs. PVI also says that response times have been improved enough to allow for animation support on products in 2010. Of course, flip books provide animation as well but we wouldn't want to use one for any considerable amount of time -- but let's wait and see what they have before coming to a conclusion.
Interestingly enough, PVI says that it's developing pressure touch sensors that sit behind the display rather than using conventional touch-panels that can
obscure the display's brightness. Funny, that sounds a lot like the
Touchco technology just purchased by Amazon two days ago.
Kindle 3, we're waiting... unfortunately for Amazon, the
rest of the industry isn't.
Kindle display maker PVI promises touchscreens, color and flexibility in 2010 models originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The head of Warner Music Group expressed hope on Tuesday that the recent "fracas" over the price of e-books would help give content creators such as his company more pricing power over device makers.
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Publishers HarperCollins and
Simon & Schuster have signed a deal with Amazon. The arrangements will allow the publishers to choose prices for Kindle versions of their books and according to HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray have left his company's "digital future [...] more assured today than it was two months ago." [
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