You’re transported back to 1994 with all your current knowledge and $50,000. Your goal is to create the world’s biggest online shopping company.

How do you go about it?

As a further thought experiment, if you travelled back to 1960 with all your current knowledge and the goal of becoming the richest person on earth, what businesses would you start?

  • UltraChilly@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think there were already server hosting services back then, and the lack of offer is not the reason why they went with their own.

    • PuzzleheadedCap168@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I think it might be a scale issue.

      Like you need lots of servers in lots of locations. One consistent interface.

      Also I suppose the Amazon software engineers built tools for themselves and probably re-used some of it in the cloud products.

      If I recall the very first offering was S3 and EC2 where you’d just get yourself on-demand storage and virtual machines.

      Then they built out all this other stuff on top, like Lambda. They’ve been adding services ever since.