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>Logistics part of Amazon has expressed a desire to become the "4th flywheel" of Amazon I'm not surprised at all if this is the long term game plan. I'm curious though, what are the first three flywheels? AWS, retail sales, and what? Alexa/Kindle devices? Prime Video? Advertising? All of those seem like strong contenders but I'm not sure they really rival the AWS/retail arms (yet).
My guess - marketplace, aws, and prime
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>Logistics part of Amazon has expressed a desire to become the "4th flywheel" of Amazon I'm not surprised at all if this is the long term game plan. I'm curious though, what are the first three flywheels? AWS, retail sales, and what? Alexa/Kindle devices? Prime Video? Advertising? All of those seem like strong contenders but I'm not sure they really rival the AWS/retail arms (yet).
Retail, AWS, Ads.
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>Logistics part of Amazon has expressed a desire to become the "4th flywheel" of Amazon I'm not surprised at all if this is the long term game plan. I'm curious though, what are the first three flywheels? AWS, retail sales, and what? Alexa/Kindle devices? Prime Video? Advertising? All of those seem like strong contenders but I'm not sure they really rival the AWS/retail arms (yet).
Retail, ec2 and digital I would presume. Digital has the kindle, video and other media services.
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It sounds like you have some expierence. Would you mind elaborating on how one would enter this space, aquire supplies/products, examples of licensing deals. Even just some trusted resources would be fine. This fascinates me, as I have wondered how some sellers on Amazon (or eBay but no thanks) become so large just by reselling other people's things on Amazon -- at the same time Amazon is the one who really wants to…
Sure happy to help. Your email in your profile appears to be invalid, but I'll write a few things here in case other folks are interested. They become big because the competitive edge is not in the supply, it's in the demand, as in, they have access to a customer base. Of course, one can't sell complete crap, supplies/products should fulfill a certain market demand, but supply is always secondary to having access to…
BTW: I was being too complicated with the email in the profile. It said "me at my username dot org", I now changed it to just say mkhalil instead of "username". It's me @ mkhalil.org. Would love to keep in touch!
Thanks