01 / prediction

27 May 2021

I always thought that Amazon's ability to acquire companies was going to get severely curtailed because of all this antitrust scrutiny.

“I always thought that Amazon's ability to acquire companies was going to get severely curtailed because of all this antitrust scrutiny.”

Speaker: Brad Stone
Episode: Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)
Publisher: Acquired

02 / prediction

1 Mar 2017

One of the things that happens at this meeting is Cheng Wei stands up and on a whiteboard kind of charts Uber’s growth since 2010, then with another fever line charts Didi’s growth since 2012, and the lines intersect and he projects that Didi will be larger than Uber primarily because the market in China is so much larger.

“One of the things that happens at this meeting is Cheng Wei stands up and on a whiteboard kind of charts Uber’s growth since 2010, then with another fever line charts Didi’s growth since 2012, and the lines intersect and he projects that Didi will be larger than Uber primarily because the market in China is so much larger.”

Speaker: Brad Stone
Episode: The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store
Publisher: Acquired

What Brad said.

I always thought that Amazon's ability to acquire companies was going to get severely curtailed because of all this antitrust scrutiny.