1/ There are few great books about Amazon for this reason. Here are the best Amazon analyses I've collected over the years:https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/952618700292501504 …
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2/ What's really going on under the hood (financially):
@BenedictEvans 'Why Amazon Has No Profits (And Why It Works)'https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why-it-works …Show this thread
3/ Bezos's Big Mandate: "All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces." Steve Yegge's infamous 'Platform Rant' https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX …
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4/ The implications of extrapolating Bezos's Big Mandate (a service-oriented architecture for internal data and tech functions) to the *all of the things*: 'Why Amazon is Eating the World' (this one is mine)https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-world/ …
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5/ ...related (and earlier!): the origins of AWS and implications beyond... "create a bunch of primitives [simple building blocks], get out of the way, and take a nice skim off the top."
@benthompson's 'The Amazon Tax' https://stratechery.com/2016/the-amazon-tax/ …Show this thread -
6/ Amazon as "a machine to make a machine...a machine to make more Amazon" - and the machine is powered by a collection "hundreds of...atomized teams sitting on top of standardised common internal systems."
@BenedictEvans's 'The Amazon Machine' https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/12/12/the-amazon-machine …Show this thread -
7/ A step-by-step overview of Amazon from the standpoint of small-to-medium business operators, with the intent of informing "a strategic approach to an Amazon-dominant marketplace."
@adventur_es's epic 'Gorilla Mode: What Amazon Means for the Rest Of Us' https://www.adventur.es/amazonShow this thread
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