Altman’s remarks in his tweet drew an overwhelmingly negative reaction.
“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”
Others called him a “f***ing psychopath” and “scum.”
“Nothing says ‘you’re being replaced’ quite like a heartfelt thank you from the guy doing the replacing,” one user wrote.
Bezos did more than that. He started with “bookstore but online” because it forced Amazon to develop a low-cost, efficient logistics capability that could then be applied to a lot of things besides books.
And as Amazon was growing, Bezos mandated that the Amazon’s internal IT infrastructure was built out with APIs that would allow it to be monetized in the future. And that’s where AWS came from.
Again, I’m not saying he’s a good person. Far from it. It’s just that, from a corporate strategy point of view, he actually had strategies that he stuck to, and they paid off. And everyone makes mistakes in business. It’s how you recover from them and persevere that makes the difference.
Musk, on the other hand, is much more in the toddler-with-shotgun category.