I’ll have to give it another read; I’m about as positive on Amazon as they come, and this wasn’t meant as an Amazon takedown.
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At a high level, similar paths and similar criticisms. But I see them as very different. Walmart was a search for retail local optima (i.e. per-store); Amazon is a search for global optima, which required an innovation in org ‘structure.’pic.twitter.com/BaVizIP7tl
This was an expansion on an earlier piece, presenting some of the missteps and downsides that came along with its innovation in strategy/structure. For the pure bull case, here’s the original:https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-world/ …
