William Watson: We need Amazonian productivity improvement
When Paul Simon wrote “these are the days of miracles and wonder” for the “Boy in the Bubble” track of his classic 1986 album Graceland, he didn’t have Amazon in mind.
Amazon hadn’t been invented yet.
Jeff Bezos was 22 years old, just-graduated from Princeton with a bachelor of science in engineering.
He didn’t co-found Amazon until 1994, when he was 30 and senior VP of a hedge fund, which he left to open up the new business in the now-famous rented garage in Seattle.
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