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Jason Del Rey

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Jason Del Rey

@DelRey

Founder and Author of The Aisle (@ReadTheAisle). Co-Chair @FortuneMagazine Brainstorm Tech/AI. Author @WinnerSellsAll. [email protected] DM for Signal

NYC-NJ

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Joined May 2008

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Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Nov 18, 2025
🚨Well, I'm taking the leap... I’m launching an independent media company, The Aisle (@ReadTheAisle), dedicated to in-depth reporting on the AI era of commerce. Whether you call it agentic, conversational, or AI-powered commerce, what's clear to me is that we’re on the cusp
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Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Jun 17, 2022
NEW: During my 9 years covering Amazon, I've wondered when its churn&burn approach to workers would catch up to it. Amazon knows the answer, according to leaked internal research from 2021: it could run out of US workers to hire by 2024. A 🧵...
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire
From vox.com
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Nov 9, 2019
Scoop: In a private phone call earlier this year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos asked Mike Bloomberg if he’d consider running for president
Jeff Bezos asked Mike Bloomberg months ago about a presidential run
From vox.com
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Jan 21, 2018
Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers recode.net/2018/1/21/1691…
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
May 3, 2019
When Jeff Bezos announced a year ago that Amazon Prime had 100 million members, I had a thought: I don’t know a ton about how Prime came to be. So over the past year, I’ve tried to find out. Here’s the story of Amazon Prime, in oral history form.
The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program
From vox.com
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Nov 10, 2018
The Square CFO search has taken a wild turn
jack
@jack
Nov 10, 2018
Going to meet with the @DalaiLama
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Mar 22, 2020
Harbor Freight hardware store chain says it will donate all the N95 masks, face shields and nitrile gloves to hospitals with 24 hour emergency rooms that are in need. Request forms here. Please share harborfreight.com/ppe-request.ht…
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Mar 28, 2021
New: Amazon's Twitter war with @berniesanders & @SenWarren came after Jeff Bezos expressed dissatisfaction with the company not pushing back aggressively on criticism execs feel is inaccurate or misleading, Recode has learned
Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed
From vox.com
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Oct 11, 2019
I've been in therapy since my dad died suddenly in June 2018. And I prob should've been going since my mom died in 2004. When people act surprised that I'm still going, I tell them I'll probably never stop. It's healthy to talk. It's healthy to seek help. #WorldMentalHealthDay
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Aug 28, 2017
It's official
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Sep 9, 2020
Amazon says it has added retired four-star Army general Keith Alexander to its board of directors. Alexander also previously ran the NSA -- the National Security Agency.
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Dec 18, 2020
Parents of the year ....we bribed our kids to dress as characters from our favorite show (which they’ve never seen).
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Jun 17, 2022
Replying to @DelRey
“If we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete...available labor supply...by 2024,” the research, which hasn’t previously been reported, says. Raising wages or adding more robots could help but only a sweeping series of changes would significantly alter the timeline.
Jason Del Rey
@DelRey
Jul 19, 2019
Doing some research and came across this quote from 1999