March 2009
2 posts
Leaving Amazon: What I learned over the last four...
Most of the people who read this blog likely already know this, but for those who don’t it’s worth making public.
Last Friday — March 20, 2009 — was my final day working at one of the greatest, most innovative and well-run companies in the world: Amazon.com. This comes after three years of full-time work and a summer internship in 2005. Surprisingly (or not, if you...
Forget Skittles, WeAllHateQuickbooks is brilliant
I was undecided how I felt about the Skittles marketing gimmick (showing the Twitter search results for “skittles”). In the end, I decided it was brilliant, at least short-term. I’m still on the fence as to whether it amounts to something good long-term for a huge brand like Skittles.
However, for a smaller brand, like Less Accounting, who are competing against an established...