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Amazon innovated with better logistics, a smarter UI, and robots -- all hard and expensive problems to solve. Uber's "innovation" consists of a simple and easil
by mimixco 7y ago
Amazon innovated with better logistics, a smarter UI, and robots -- all hard and expensive problems to solve. Uber's "innovation" consists of a simple and easily replicated app.
- runako 7y agoThat's all in place now. None of that was in place enough to be a profitable competitive advantage by 2004, 10 years after Amazon was founded. (Uber is 10 years old.) The first 10 years of Amazon were blitzscaling at all costs (or as they said at the time "Get Big Fast!").