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In all fairness, webvan was addressing something that folks apparently want. IIRC Amazon is actively trying to roll out something very similar to this right now

In all fairness, webvan was addressing something that folks apparently want. IIRC Amazon is actively trying to roll out something very similar to this right now... Don't confuse "disruptive companies" with "mismanaged companies". The first implies they are on to something, the second implies they don't know how to reach it.

prewett 9y ago
I'm not sure you can be "disruptive" if you aren't competently managed...
ThePadawan 9y ago
In fact, Webvan's Wikipedia article lists their fate as "Bankrupt, resurrected by Amazon.com in 2009" without going into further detail.
- rgbrenner 9y ago
  But that's inaccurate bs that someone edited there. There's no real connection between Webvan and Amazon. Louis Borders founded Webvan (the guy who founded Border bookstores). They went bankrupt in 2001. Mick Mountz and a few other Webvan employees started Kiva Robotics a few years later... In 2007, Amazon launched AmazonFresh, and then in 2012 Amazon purchased Kiva... and those former Webvan employees started work at Amazon (IDK if they still work there). And if you click on the ref in wikipedia.. you'll see it's an article from 2013 saying Webvan was alive at Amazon because former webvan employees came to work there when amazon bought kiva. That's not the way acquisitions work... Webvan is long dead.