[sillyfluke]

Yes, definately. I find the lack of discussion about time frames as totally unserious. Their starting assumptions could be all valid if clairvoyantly made in the 90s and they'd still be utterly useless in helping startups make decisions for that decade. However, if they knew there would be significant breakthroughs in the early 2020s, well that'd be something else. Though you know, they'd have to find some random ways to stay alive until then.

Bezos is making assumptions about human behavior in that quote, and those assumptions seem instantly obvious to any human who is asked, regardless of their experience or expertise with any business whatsoever. There is no instant validity possible with the AI assumption.