Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
31 Dec 2016 Acquired The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg
“As someone who works on early-stage startups, a lot of the time there’s all this like really vague questions around, “Okay. We think we have an idea in this space and we’re learning as we’re going.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 31 Dec 2016
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- Acquired
Transcript context
…It feels like unnatural to think about an alternative history here. Right. As someone who works on early-stage startups, a lot of the time there’s all this like really vague questions around, “Okay. We think we have an idea in this space and we’re learning as we’re going. ” Should we be a platform provider or should we the business that sits on top of it? Should it all be combined or should we be a horizontal or a vertical business in this space? You even go back and forth long after you've started the business kind of playing both sides there. It just doesn’t seem like Amazon had any ambiguity over what the long-term vision of the company was, at least the retail business. So Tom, hearing that, do you agree or are you laughing at us saying like, “easy to say from this vantage point”?…
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