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Comment by btilly

9 hours ago

Amazon didn't make a profit because they were reinvesting money into starting new lines of business.

Basically there was a choice between taking the money, and growing. They chose growth.

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chpatrick  8 hours ago

As opposed to...?

  • drchickensalad  3 hours ago

    Spending all your money on extremely quickly depreciating graphics hardware and model training

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