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by nico42 2005 days ago
"Skeptics say, it would have to sell every book being sold in the world today to justify its stock price" - Amazon in 1997 [1]. The stock is 50 times higher now.

I have no idea if history will repeat itself, but I find the parallel interesting

[1] https://youtu.be/8SSj7KwBwr8?t=660

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They were overvalued in 1997. Even they knew it and started pivoting away from being just a book store shortly after.