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Comment by stingraycharles

8 hours ago

Amazon?

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abtinf  8 hours ago

Amazon was wildly profitable on a unit cost basis from relatively early on. They didn’t show profits on paper because they reinvested everything into their capital buildout to reduce costs even more.

  • stingraycharles  7 hours ago

    I thought Amazon was selling quite a few items at a loss to undercut competition early on?

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