Early Amazon Comparisons
Comments repeatedly compare the discussed startup or business strategy to Amazon's early days, arguing that Amazon pioneered similar approaches when it was smaller and less established before scaling massively.
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why do you think amazon did not do the exact same things, before they accumulated years of baggage?
your one anecdotal situation is in no way indicative of amazon's business. They are much bigger today than it was before!
Except Amazon would beat them to it
That would be Amazon in its earlier days.
Amazon did that for quite some time
Wasn't Amazon doing that in their early days, when they didn't have a track record?
Did not Amazon at some point buy or thought about buying up some of their business?
Isn’t that what Amazon did early on? If so, looks like it worked.
Amazon has done it a couple of times (Kindle, AWS).
Amazon did it for themselves first.