Amazon’s growth may be impossible to stop, argues this terrifying New Yorker profile

guest · Oct 10, 2019

Amazon’s growth may be impossible to stop, argues this terrifying New Yorker profile
October 10, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/10...ppable-new-yorker-profile-read-this-antitrust

Amazon is one of the wealthiest and most powerful corporations on the planet. But just how powerful is it, and how exactly did it get there in just under two and a half decades?

To fully understand the company’s trajectory, and what it’ll mean for future antitrust regulation, I recommend reading former New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg’s new profile of the company, published in The New Yorker this morning. It’s aptly titled “Is Amazon Unstoppable?”

It features an exhaustive collection of intricate details about the company’s operations and history, combined with smart analysis and some telling on-the-record and anonymous quotes from current and former executives. But primarily, Duhigg explores the scary notion that Amazon may be impossible to rein in, whether through regulation or standard capitalist competition.
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hawki · Oct 11, 2019

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Amazon’s growth may be impossible to stop, argues this terrifying New Yorker profile
October 10, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/10...ppable-new-yorker-profile-read-this-antitrust

Long read
The New Yorker: Is Amazon Unstoppable?
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Here's a different take on Amazon's growth.

For anyone interested in Amazon, what is motivating Bezos, Amazon in general, Amazon management, etc, this is a terrific article chock-full of fascinating facts/details/insights.

Too long to read at one look, but well-worth the read.

"Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/what-jeff-bezos-wants/598363/

guest · Dec 22, 2020

Go read this Wall Street Journal report on Amazon’s obsession with cloning and crushing its rivals
December 22, 2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/22...investigation-competition-marketplace-sellers

The story, “How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners,” delves into Amazon’s various strategies for dealing with competitors and managing the Amazon Marketplace, its platform for third-party sellers that’s responsible for more than half of all its retail sales.

More than anything, the WSJ story, which anyone interested in Amazon’s rise and how it wields its market position should go read, is a helpful reminder that companies don’t become as big, powerful, and unprecedentedly wealthy as Amazon by accident or due to sheer momentum alone.
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Oftentimes, key decisions from executives along the way help shape strategies that put other rival firms out of business or force those rivals to sell or face decline.
In the case of Amazon Marketplace, those strategies may make the small businesses that rely on online platforms so dependent on one company’s services that they’re prevented from fleeing to a competitor.
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Wall Street Journal:: How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners

CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of a startup trying to survive, and that strand of its corporate DNA is becoming a liability
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