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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tomasz Tunguz

OUCH. It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80 percent from when I wrote you last year. Jeff Bezos wrote this to start his annual shareholder letter in the year 2000. But he might have written it today. Amazon stock reached an all time high of $5.33 before falling to $0.298.

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writing one sentence per line

Derek Sivers

My advice to anyone who writes: Try writing one sentence per line. I’ve been doing it for twenty years, and it improved my writing more than anything else. New sentence? Hit [Enter]. New line. Not publishing one sentence per line, no. Write like this for your eyes only. HTML or Markdown combine separate lines into one paragraph. Why is it so useful?

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Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric

A Smart Bear: Longform

Traditional rubrics fail to reveal the best answers, or how explain those answers to others. After explaining why, the following system solves both failures.

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the joke that changed my life

Derek Sivers

Growing up in America, I didn’t know much about other cultures. When I was 25, my band got some gigs in Europe — my first time there. It was 1995. The European Union was new. I heard a street performer in Copenhagen tell this joke: “The EU will be a success if …. the British are the police. the French are the chefs. the Italians are the lovers. and the whole thing is organized by the Germans.”.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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[Tabnine in Enterprise Talk] Tabnine upgrades AI-based code-writing assistant for developers

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Tabnine, a company that creates an AI-powered assistant for software developers that predicts when code will be created for certain apps and fills in the gaps with relevant snippets, has released a new version of its time-saving application programming interface. Read more here. The post [Tabnine in Enterprise Talk] Tabnine upgrades AI-based code-writing assistant for developers appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.