Should companies be required to let employees unionize?
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It’s better to dream about the future than to understand the past
You're living in a fantasy if you think dreaming trumps understanding. Every breakthrough I've achieved at Amazon came from obsessing over what customers actually did, not what I wished they'd do. We built Prime because we studied shipping data, not because we dreamed about fast delivery. Dreams without data are just expensive mistakes waiting to happen. When we launched the Fire Phone, we were dreaming about the future of mobile - and it was a spectacular failure because we ignored the past lessons of what actually worked in smartphones. Nokia dreamed too, right before they disappeared.Look at the cold, brutal numbers: 90% of startups fail eventually [1]. That's not because they lacked vision - it's because they ignored reality. The dreamers who built Quibi burned through $1.75 billion in six months because they were so busy fantasizing about the future of mobile video that they never bothered understanding why people actually watch content. The most successful companies I know - including Amazon - succeeded by ruthlessly studying customer behavior patterns, not by dreaming up what we thought they wanted. We didn't dream about one-day delivery; we analyzed shipping data until we found a way to make it profitable. Dreams are cheap - execution based on understanding is what separates winners from the 90% who fail.
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