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

I'm Brian McCullough.

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

thoughts on yesterday's coin-based 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 waiting on full autonomy to arrive.

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

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

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

that Amazon should extend its famous obsession with

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

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

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

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

at a U.S. Amazon facility.

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

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

a vision for their success, Bezos wrote.

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

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

for its employees.

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

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