Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Aug 2022 Acquired Amazon.com
“We could buy you and you could be our internet thing or we could crush you. I think that's how the dinner went.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Aug 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Amazon.com
Transcript context
…The dinner was like a soft we-want-to-buy-you, or was the dinner a soft we're-going-to-run-you-out-of-business? It was both. It was, hey, we've heard about you. You know we're Barnes & Noble, right? We've been thinking about doing the Internet. We're going to do it. We could buy you and you could be our internet thing or we could crush you. I think that's how the dinner went. By the way, the 1996 Wall Street Journal piece that did wake the world up to this, was titled Wall Street Whiz Finds Niche Selling Books on the Internet. I always think back on the Wall Street whiz for Jeff Bezos.…
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