“Google’s approach — solve the hard technical problems first, worry about the business model later — is rooted in the engineering background of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In contrast, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spent almost a decade working for several Wall Street firms before starting Amazon — a background that gives him a more pragmatic outlook that’s more focused on developing products customers will actually want to pay for.”
There’s no shortage of innovation to go around at Amazon, Google, and Apple.
But this Vox article offers an interesting analysis of how their approach to innovation differs, and why Amazon may be best positioned to dominate the next decade.