Amazon Drive, the company's subscription based cloud storage service, is being shut down.
👉 Background: We know Amazon has a lot of different businesses, including e-comm, web services and its streaming service. As well as a million others... Like Amazon Drive.
👉 What happened: Drive was Amazon's subscription based cloud storage service, similar to Dropbox or Google Drive. It has been around since 2011 buuuut it has never done that amazingly.
👉 What else: It seems like Amazon realised Drive was doomed and now the company is finally shutting it down.
💡Even the biggest, most successful companies tend to fail many times on their path to success. Amazon's laundry list of failures is both long and entertaining.
💡You’ve got the:
💡 Yet, these failures certainly aren’t the main things you think of when you think of Amazon. And that’s because speed bumps on the way to success are normal.
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