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Revenue of 280.5 billion USD in 2019 works out to roughly $500k/minute.
by leesalminen 6y ago
Revenue of 280.5 billion USD in 2019 works out to roughly $500k/minute.
- michaelmior 6y agoThe calculation is accurate in one sense, but I don't think it represents actual revenue loss for two reasons. Firstly, spending is non-uniform and peaks a lot on Black Friday, near Christmas, etc. Second, assuming the site is down for only a few minutes (it's back now), a significant fraction of people will probably just try again later. I still imagine this is a significant loss.