I always viewed Alexa as Amazon's way of enabling future re-investment of profits. The second you show w-street profit, they want it to only ever grow with future dividends. Amazon's entire model is growth over all else.
I've wondered if Alphabet's X/Waymo division operates in a similar manner. Giving future Alphabet a way to cut costs when it's growth stalls.
It’s really too bad. There are so many companies (including Apple at this point) that I feel would be much better off if they could just announce they were going blue-chip and stop trying to grow so much every single quarter.
With Apple how long can the worlds biggest (or close, don’t know ATM) company keep growing?
So they’re doing user-hostile stuff like more ads and unnecessary subscriptions.
How many nice SaaS things had a perfect product bad had to pivot to enterprise just to find growth, ruining it in the process?
I've wondered if Alphabet's X/Waymo division operates in a similar manner. Giving future Alphabet a way to cut costs when it's growth stalls.