[freyr]

> Their numbers are horrible. I can't believe their shareholders put up with them.

Yeah. At the end of the day, it's all about the quarterly profit. If a company isn't chasing the short-term dollar, the shareholders must be suckers.

[mhartl]

freyr gets it. Who'd want to own 10% of barely profitable AMZN when they could own 100% of their local, highly profitable deli?