[simplotek]

> Why would any company fire anybody if they are generating money for them?

Amazon has been cutting teams that either could not justify their existence or worked in money-losing investments. Alexa was a very public project getting the axe.

[Sakos]

I still don't understand why they axed Alexa. It doesn't make any sense to me in the context of the rest of their business.

[simplotek]

> I still don't understand why they axed Alexa.

Alexa was described as "a colossal failure" which lost 10 billion dollars last year alone.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co...

[Sakos]

I don't really understand how that division could rack up $10 billion in losses in a single year either.

[rileyphone]

Because it’s an embarrassing product and Jassy doesn’t love it like Bezos.