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The impression I've gotten from friends working there is the reverse: The cloud business is making so much money it can't spend it fast enough. The retail side

The impression I've gotten from friends working there is the reverse: The cloud business is making so much money it can't spend it fast enough. The retail side, meanwhile, is making money but spending it faster enough to remain "not profitable"

epa 11y ago
That's not really how accounting works
- discodave 11y ago
  It's how it works at Amazon. "How much gross profit is the retail business going to generate that I can spend on drones and the Amazon Echo v2"
- qznc 11y ago
  For many years Amazon was proud that they did not make a profit.