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by ignoramous 975 days ago
> Amazon never set out to solve specific problems, but rather found cool new applications for maturing technologies.

This (timing the market) is probably the most important aspect of building any hyper-growth business. Also explains why early-stage investors tend to jump from one hype to another like no tomorrow.

Jeff Bezos in June 1997 explaining why now and why books: https://youtu.be/rWRbTnE1PEM / mirror: https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/rWRbTnE1PEM