It's all about platforms…

A very interesting read about life at Amazon and Google from Steve Yegge (ex Amazon, now Google)

Steve posted this on Google+ publicly when it was intended as an internal message. Steve talks about the difference between Amazon and Google and how Amazon turned their technology stack into a platform.

Here are a few links to the post, just in case any get removed – also they have different comments.

• https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX
• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876
• http://steverant.pen.io/

At Caplin, we are not really in the same game as Google or Amazon, but we have a platform that our customers take and build on, as opposed to an online platform that customers use.