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Acquired

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The Golly Incident and Jeff Campbell's Quote to Brad in the Everything Store

By 2001, it's becoming clear that they got to pull back. And so in 2001, they lay off 1300 people. They start looking around like, okay, what do we have? What can we do? We've got a pretty good e-commerce website. A lot of people want to have e-commerce websites. What if we start going to other companies who want to have good e- commerce websites and we offer to sell them our infrastructure? Almost like being Shopify. This is like Shopify, not AWS. Not quite the same. No, not at all.

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