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Seems highly unlikely Dave Clark was a double agent installed by Amazon. Flexport only compete with a small part of Amazon, specifically Fulfilment by Amazon -

by yashap 3y ago

Seems highly unlikely Dave Clark was a double agent installed by Amazon. Flexport only compete with a small part of Amazon, specifically Fulfilment by Amazon - hard to see them risking the massive blowback if discovered just to take down a company that doesn’t compete with either of their core businesses (amazon.com and AWS). Much more likely he was just a bad CEO/bad hire. Often vets from mega-corps are terrible hires as C-suite types at startups, bringing all sorts of bureaucratic process and overspending, based on what they know from mega-corps.

CamelCaseName 3y ago
What? FBA is a key reason why Amazon.com is so dominant. It's the biggest part of their moat.
boringg 3y ago
Couldn't agree more with your comment. Sounds full conspiracy to think that Amazon would send in a double agent that somehow passed the filter for a small start up. What is this world coming to that we think elections are stolen in a mass conspiracy or that large tech companies will somehow install puppet CEOs in a start ups in an effort to fight off a non-existential threat while negotiating a deal with a competitor at the same time (that would be contingent on this first deal happening). People have too much time on their hands.
- carapace 3y ago
  We live in a world where Crypto AG was a CIA front. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG Of regime changes in the 21st century over half of them were the result of some kind of coup (aka "conspiracy"). Or consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal Or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed#Industry_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed#Industry_r... We live in a world where weird things happen.
  - hedora 3y ago
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rhaway84773 3y ago
Yeah and the timing is also easily explainable. The board could have already had doubts, and when he lost a Shopify contract to Amazon, when arguably Shopify sells itself as the anti-Amazon, that only served to underscore he wasn’t the right person to lead the company.
- hedora 3y ago
  Shopify may have been considering switching to amazon when they sold off deliverr. Otherwise, why sell it?
Dave3of5 3y ago
> a small part of Amazon, specifically Fulfilment by Amazon Huh? FBA is a huge part of Amazon. It's one of the main reasons for Amazon existing without it you could only buy stuff that Amazon themselves stock ...

by yashap 3y ago

CamelCaseName 3y ago

What? FBA is a key reason why Amazon.com is so dominant. It's the biggest part of their moat.

boringg 3y ago

Couldn't agree more with your comment. Sounds full conspiracy to think that Amazon would send in a double agent that somehow passed the filter for a small start up. What is this world coming to that we think elections are stolen in a mass conspiracy or that large tech companies will somehow install puppet CEOs in a start ups in an effort to fight off a non-existential threat while negotiating a deal with a competitor at the same time (that would be contingent on this first deal happening). People have too much time on their hands.

carapace 3y ago
We live in a world where Crypto AG was a CIA front. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG Of regime changes in the 21st century over half of them were the result of some kind of coup (aka "conspiracy"). Or consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal Or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed#Industry_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed#Industry_r... We live in a world where weird things happen.
- hedora 3y ago
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rhaway84773 3y ago

Yeah and the timing is also easily explainable. The board could have already had doubts, and when he lost a Shopify contract to Amazon, when arguably Shopify sells itself as the anti-Amazon, that only served to underscore he wasn’t the right person to lead the company.

hedora 3y ago
Shopify may have been considering switching to amazon when they sold off deliverr. Otherwise, why sell it?

Dave3of5 3y ago

> a small part of Amazon, specifically Fulfilment by Amazon Huh? FBA is a huge part of Amazon. It's one of the main reasons for Amazon existing without it you could only buy stuff that Amazon themselves stock ...