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I think 20 billion is still pocket change for a company with a 1.8T market cap. And if Amazon did want to divest, they would likely just sell instead of taking

• dragontamer 5y ago
  Market cap? No one uses market cap when talking about dollars in this manner. I'd argue shareholder equity is the more reasonable metric. Amazon has 320-Billion in assets and 100-billion in liabilities. That means a CEO looks at Amazon and sees the $320 Billion it can use for operations (which includes all of Amazon's properties, warehouses, equipment, etc. etc.), and the $100 Billion Amazon owes other companies (ie: liabilities). So $220 Billion total equity. That means that this Rivian stake is literally 10% of Amazon's equity. That's no small percent by any stretch of the imagination.