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by roymurdock 3725 days ago
You can almost hear the ghost of Warren Buffet pitching Geico echoing through Bezos' prose.
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Don't you need to be dead to have a ghost?
Dude kind of missed the point that Bezos has clearly read a lot of Buffet's shareholder letters and is now taking on this good-natured, funny grandfather tone to soften public percpetion the hard economics that run his business - cost cutting, ruthless management, etc. that have recently come to light. Smart move, not subtle, but also not meant to be subtle.

Wouldn't be surprised if Bezos starts madly pitching for the USA and including pictures of him and his employees soon...on the other hand, nobody breaks down the business of insurance/multi-national conglomerate management as elegantly, wittily, and insightfully as Buffett so we have that to look forward to from Bezos.