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Ultimately, Amazon is a weather pattern that disturbs everything around it.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Amazon Around Everything Pattern Ultimately Weather

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I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Achieved Customer Employees Expense Think Value Welfare

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There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Amazon Before Business Companies Complacent Continually Disrupt Employees Evidence Fundamentals Get Happens Internet Learn Lessons Lots Many Motivate Never Never Stop Other Others Questioning See Stop Too Yahoo Your Yourself Aol

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There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Advantages Amazon Broad Distribution Does Down Emulate Largest Lots Low Model Monopoly Much Now Player Prices Said See Selection Slowing Way

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I don't think we yet know - because it's probably not big enough - what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but whatever it is, I don't anticipate retail wastelands. If anything, it's maybe a wake-up call to retailers that they just have to offer something meaningful to customers.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Amazon Anticipate Anything Because Big Big Enough Call Cities Customers Does Enough Exactly Just Know Maybe Meaningful Offer Our Retail Something Think Wake-Up Wake-Up Call Whatever

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As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Again Amazon Book Business Conditions Diapers Economic Get Goes Kindle Making Meant Now Own Publishing Seeks Seen Simply Suppliers Titles Various Way

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Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Ability Business Clash Companies Complexities Control Egos Exceed Exponentially Founders Grow Inside Investors Jockey Life Nasty Rapidly Really Short Startups Successful Web

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Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Amazon Data Decisions Dynamics Emotions Guided Human Human Emotions Often Own Petty Political Promotions Responding Run Studying Subjective

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There's a new set of transformative technologies such as machine learning, AI, and virtual reality that will spawn another set of big tech franchises. But in terms of cultural impact, perhaps we are at peak Valley.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Ai Another Big Cultural Impact Learning Machine New Peak Perhaps Reality Set Spawn Tech Technologies Terms Transformative Valley Virtual Virtual Reality Will

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With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized their existence, both were fairly large and had the political support of their customers.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Airbnb Both By The Time Cities Customers Existence Fairly Gotten Had Interpretation Large Many Neither Nor Political Recognized Regulations Started Support Taxi Time Tough Were Would Uber

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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