Was reading the book "Extreme Ownership" and there was an anecdote about a company where one division was forced to be a consumer of another's services (captively). I feel like this wouldn't happen at Amazon, they'd let each div do what it wanted and compete for others' biz
This, except for the antitrust part. Breaking it up would have little effect because it’s already a loosely coupled set of division-level APIs. Each division has external customers and other AMZN divisions as customers. It’s already broken apart.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1038497062608728064 …
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Amazon does force its divisions to buy from each other, but solves the creeping inefficiency problem by opening up those services to outside customers.https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-world/ …
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I suspect the remedies are less breaking apart and more enforcement against anti competitive practices like predatory pricing.
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You’re making the argument easier
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They have lots of individual businesses with external customers but what ties them all together is the Prime program (the key to their flywheel). It won’t be little effect if they are forced to unbundle Prime.
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Agreed. Same with Google. Already broken into several entities in the US and all the international entities. If larger companies become inefficient they will be beaten by newer companies as long as “regulations” don’t create big moats around the incumbents.
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