英语新闻:Why Amazon's Jeff Bezos is the next Steve Jobs
2011-10-31
With the passing of Steve Jobs (earlier) this month, the tech industry lost one of its most revered icons. So where will the industry turn for inspiration now that Jobs is gone?
New Apple CEO Tim Cook will keep the business cranking along, but he's unlikely to inspire the same kind of devotion as Jobs. Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg has star power, but he and his company are still too (young) and untested. At Google, Larry Page is too awkward and Eric Schmidt too slick, and a lot of the company's recent products are too unfinished.
But there's one tech leader who just might fit the bill: Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
Bezos runs his business the (same) way Steve Jobs ran his, with a relentless focus on (long-term) value over short-term profits and a willingness to place big bets in seemingly unrelated new areas. Steve Jobs took Apple on a detour from personal computers into music with the iPod, and then into cell phones with the iPhone. It (worked), and made Apple into the biggest and richest tech company in the world.