Almost every successful Amazon business I've ever encountered almost all of them are Amazon native sort of with business plans designed specifically for Amazon. With one exception everyone I can think of got recruited by Amazon started trying to sell through Amazon and that era it failed. Many people who got involved particularly in that Wild West era started out by just signing up for an Amazon seller account which is not very much money right now. They would go on to do huge pretty huge volumes reselling $50,000 worth of stuff a day or something $70,000 Worth of Stuff A Day.
Paris Marx is joined by Moira Weigel to discuss the third-party sellers who supply many of the goods sold through Amazon, how the company’s policy decisions reshape small businesses to act like mini-Amazons, and what that means for regulatory responses.
Moira Weigel is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School, and a founding editor of Logic Magazine. Her most recent book is Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do--And How They Do It, co-edited with Ben Tarnoff. Follow Moira on Twitter at @moiragweigel.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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