I’d wager they’re tech companies if their business model is built on proprietary technology that allows them to take a business idea and scale it quickly. Uber

I’d wager they’re tech companies if their business model is built on proprietary technology that allows them to take a business idea and scale it quickly. Uber’s a tech company because their technology for taxi dispatch allows them to dispatch millions of cars without a single human manning a telephone. Amazon is a tech company because their inventory management system (unique at the time: when they didn’t have bins of identical items in their warehouses unlike their competitors in the early 2000s. If Amazon was just using Magento then you’d have a point - but when a company’s beating heart depends on the canny exploitation of their own technology - they’re a tech company.