Each of Amazon's big winners has more than paid for thousands of experiments.
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Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
Reasoning
Whether successes have paid for thousands of failed experiments depends on Amazon's internal accounting.
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Jeff Bezos, “Each of Amazon's big winners has more than paid for thousands of experiments.” (said 20 September 2018). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_78971cc6a632, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_78971cc6a632
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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