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They're not quite at the same scale as amazon, but many of the Korean/Japanese behemoth companies have enormously succesful businesses in multiple areas. Samsun
by maccard 5y ago
They're not quite at the same scale as amazon, but many of the Korean/Japanese behemoth companies have enormously succesful businesses in multiple areas. Samsung, Sony, Yamaha for example.
- simonh 5y agoThe Zaibatsu/Keiretsu took many generations to get where they are now, and relied on heavy political patronage and financial muscle to grow over protracted periods of time. None of their founders built multiple global businesses from scratch in a single lifetime, let alone simultaneously. They're also very much artificial constructs, in the sense at this point they are as much political as economic artefacts. The Chaebol are more recent in their modern form but followed the same model.