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Emails detail Amazon’s plan to crush a startup rival with price cuts
- coip 6y agoUnfortunate gazelles
- Osiris 6y agoI don't think it's so much an issue of size as vertical integration. In this case, you have someone providing BOTH a platform AND products on the platform. The same issue happens with Internet, where one company provides both the infrastructure AND the ISP services. In some countries (Japan), it's not legal to own both the platform and a service on that platform. If a company provides a marketplace, they should not be allowed to also sell their own products on that marketplace because it makes the marketplace inherently unfair.
- epistasis 6y agoA real shame this hasn't broken through to the front page. Well-documented anti-competitive behavior from Amazon should be something all founders are aware of; taking on a competitor willing to take $200M before acquiring you is pretty remarkable.