The Best Business to Be in Long Term

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eba goes public in september of 19 98 at a two billion dollar market cap. The best business to be in, certainly for the next few years, may be even the next decade, if your ebe is a high margin, true internet business. And it's effectively four years from acton web, but it's two years from ebe. That's impressive. Ye as. All, this is happening in the summer of 19 98, before the eb ipo. But as amazon and e be are more like ait a minut, we're cout on going in the same direction. We'll go tell that whole history soon.

Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern life — more than this one. We’ve waited seven years to do this episode, and are so, so excited to finally dive into every nook and cranny of this legendary company. And of course because we’re Acquired and this is Amazon, we couldn’t contain it all to just one episode… even a 4+ hour one! So today we focus on Amazon.com the retail business, and we’ll have another full episode on AWS coming soon. And because all great series are trilogies, to fully understand Amazon we highly recommend starting first with our previous episode on Walmart, which truly is the giant’s shoulder that Jeff Bezos stood upon. Let’s go!!

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