October 25, 2005

Interview with Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com

I like how the writer asks Mr. Bubble Boy if we're in a bubble. Deep question man.

So was eBay's deal with Skype a daft move? He shrugs. "It may be very smart, but we are focused on building a great customer experience in an area that has unconstrained market size."

As to whether the boom times are back - "I don't know," he admits. "And the reality is that bubbles are easy to see in hindsight and hard to see in foresight. If they were easier to see in foresight they wouldn't happen. That's a stock-market question; it is very disconnected in the short term from the business and the business results."