[sashank_1509]

Amazons growth has been one of the most astonishing things this decade. It feels like they broke all rules and managed to absolutely dominate. I remember in the 2000s the dominant paradigm was to be a platform since software “can’t do infra”. The idea was to be the middleman that Walmart, Target etc use, not to directly compete with them. Amazon did the opposite and competed hard and won.

Another anecdote is in a sea of tech companies that try to attract talent with perks/ benefit/ even high salaries Amazon had none. Amazon prides itself for making a table out of a door to save money (no joke). But arguably Amazon employees made bank in Amazon because of its stock growth, definitely more compared to Google, Apple, Meta, maybe similar to Microsoft. Finally of all companies, Amazon is the only big tech I know that veered off its main product and still dominated. AWS is completely off the left field for Amazon, it makes me optimistic that Amazon might become a juggernaut in healthcare too (they definitely are trying).