ClaimsJeff Bezos

“Tomorrow, through personalization, online commerce will accelerate the very process of discovery.”

Jeff Bezos, CEO, writing in Amazon shareholder letter 21 March 1998 Jeff Bezos' Original 1997 Letter to Amazon Shareholders (About Amazon)

Prediction Economics and markets

Through personalization, online commerce will in future accelerate the process of discovery for customers.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

The prediction has no horizon and is too vague to test.

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Jeff Bezos, “Through personalization, online commerce will in future accelerate the process of discovery for customers.” (said 21 March 1998). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_7a8fd4005cf6, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_7a8fd4005cf6

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  2. Mostly true Prediction 2 April 2001
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