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David Rosenthal: uncertainty

21 Jun 2017 Acquired Whole Foods Market

“I don’t know that there’s too much more insight to add but I don’t think we’ve talked about it yet and we can’t have an episode on Amazon without talking about the flywheel.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
21 Jun 2017
Publisher
Acquired

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…Yup. Want to grade it? One other one I wanted to do real quick. I don’t know that there’s too much more insight to add but I don’t think we’ve talked about it yet and we can’t have an episode on Amazon without talking about the flywheel. Because I mean, really, that is the other – besides making big bets, that is the other core element to Bezos and Amazon’s philosophy. And if you think here about kind of especially Alexa and Echoes and were do Echoes live, like they live in the kitchen, and how that business has grown within Amazon. And then attaching a grocery business to that and “Alexa, bring me some milk,” you know, you ca start to see the flywheel spinning and that's how you can create this just unsurmountable competitive advantage in this space. Absolutely.…

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