>... unlike Amazon we aren't under same economic pressures as a typical VC or investor owned company. I think it's a high bar to say that (a) the economic pres

>... unlike Amazon we aren't under same economic pressures as a typical VC or investor owned company. I think it's a high bar to say that (a) the economic pressures faced by a typical VC backed company are the same as those faced by a typical investor owned company, and (b) that Amazon faces the same pressures as a typical investor backed company. Public company investors don't usually expect the kind of meteoric growth that VC's do, and Amazon has a long history of reinvesting in itself to the detriment of their profitability. Not the playbook associated with stereotypical public company economic pressures.