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Thu. 04/15 – Bezos’ Farewell To Amazon Investors

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Jeff Bezos pens his farewell to the troops, and also, the shareholders. A big Google Earth update. Some thoughts on yesterday’s Coinbase debut. DJI updates its mid-level workhorse drone. And Ford is taking baby steps to that sort of super cruise control that I really want while we’re wait for full autonomy. Sponsors: AirMedCareNetwork.com/tech offer code TECH AwayTravel.com/techmeme Links: Jeff Bezos says Amazon needs to do a better job for employees in his final shareholder letter as CEO (CNBC) Google Earth’s historical 3D time lapses show the ravages of climate change (The Verge) Apple announces $200 million investment fund for forest restoration projects (9 to 5 Mac) Parallels 16.5 with native Apple Silicon support now available, up 30% faster VM performance than Intel (9 to 5 Mac) I funded Coinbase in 2012. Making 6000x on my best startup investment yet (Gary Tan) DJI’s new Mavic Air 2S comes with one big upgrade (The Verge) Ford’s hands-free BlueCruise driving feature coming soon to the F-150 and Mustang Mach-E (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, April 15th, 2021.

0:07.0

I'm Brian McCullough.

0:08.0

Today, Jeff Bézos pens his farewell to the troops and also the shareholders a big Google Earth update some

0:16.0

thoughts on yesterday's coin-based debut DJI updates its mid-level workhorse drone and

0:20.9

Ford is taking baby steps to that sort of super cruise control

0:25.1

that I really want while we're waiting on full autonomy to arrive.

0:29.8

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. As we know Jeff Bezos is relinquishing

0:37.0

his CEO title later this year and so this morning he released his final letter to shareholders as Amazon CEO.

0:46.6

And it's interesting, he directly addressed one of the elephants in the room and suggested

0:51.6

that Amazon should extend its famous obsession with

0:54.8

customer experience to cover care for Amazon's own employees as well, quoting CMBC. Bazaos pointed to the recent union election outcome at one of Amazon's Alabama

1:06.2

warehouses as an example of why the company needs to address challenges within its workforce.

1:11.2

Last week Amazon secured enough votes to defeat a historic unionization drive at its

1:15.3

Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, which, if successful, would have represented the first union

1:19.7

at a U.S. Amazon facility.

1:21.3

Quote, while the voting results were lopsided and our direct relationship with employees is strong,

1:27.5

it's clear to me that we need a better vision for how we create value for employees,

1:32.3

a vision for their success, Bezos wrote.

1:36.1

Amazon has famously held a core set of leadership principles, chief among them being customer

1:41.4

obsessed. In the future, Bezos said he wants Amazon to do the same

1:45.5

for its employees.

1:46.5

Quote, despite what we've accomplished, it's clear to me that we need a better vision for our

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