Amazon com Inc. is slowly dismantling Tony Hsieh’s version of Zappos, more than two years after the famed entrepreneur’s death. Zappos laid off more than 300 employees last month, or about 20% of the Las Vegas-based company’s workforce, according to people familiar with the layoffs and a Zappos memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The Zappos cuts came as part of broader layoffs at Amazon that are expected to eliminate more than 18,000 employees, which the Journal reported will affect roughly 5% of its corporate ranks. Read More...
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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Says Steve Jobs, Elon Musk Are Similar, Except…
American Author Bell Hooks once said that “within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.” On Thursday, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak aimed a similar critique not at late-stage capitalism, but rather at Tesla CEO Elon Musk, comparing him to his good friend and the leader of the Silicon Valley tech revolution, Steve Jobs. “I put them in the category of having the ability to communicate and want to be seen as the important person and being like the cult leader,” Wozniak said.
