[jyu]

The leaders, managers, engineers need to do something to justify their promotions. They are growing because the internet is centralizing. It's succeeding despite all the bad user decisions being made, but at some point it will catch up with them.

Reminds me of Meg Whitman running ebay into the ground while collecting billions and eventually getting wrecked by Amazon. They're still around but a shell of their former relevance.

[bombcar]

eBay, Amazon, and Etsy have all devolved to an alibaba outlet with some differentiation.

It’s getting hard to find the things eBay was famous for (used goods) amongst all the buyitnow alibaba junk.

[Animats]

On Alibaba, you get pictures of the factory and business background info. On Amazon, you get nothing.