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Because they're dependent on selling hardware, not software. It's not rocket science, hardware doesn't scale as easily as software, so it leads to a smaller mul

Because they're dependent on selling hardware, not software. It's not rocket science, hardware doesn't scale as easily as software, so it leads to a smaller multiplier.

capkutay 7y ago
And amazon has 125,000 employees running their supply chain. I wouldn't call that 'easy to scale' either.
- outside1234 7y ago
  And amazon barely makes any profit, so its not clear that their business actually does scale, if they didn’t have AWS.
  - Touche 7y ago
    Their goal is not to make a profit or they would be
  - jhall1468 7y ago
    AWS is their business and it certainly scales. Their goal in retail is market dominance through convenience and that still costs a ton of money. AWS does not cost a ton of money.
- ekianjo 7y ago
  Amazon is not just moving goods, they have AWS as well and that scales very well.
  - deleted 7y ago
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- KptMarchewa 7y ago
  Not more? Wikipedia claims Amazon has 647,500 employees.