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Yeah. It sounds like a form of of "faking it until you make it" to me; Amazon wanted to have a marketplace with a wide selection, but there's a chicken/egg prob
by eurleif 14y ago
Yeah. It sounds like a form of of "faking it until you make it" to me; Amazon wanted to have a marketplace with a wide selection, but there's a chicken/egg problem, so they faked the seller side to acquire buyers.
- GFischer 14y agoIt's a big problem with marketplaces and social sites. The Reddit guys also had a lot of sockpuppets, and you see similar stuff on many success stories :) http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/reddit-founders-made...