What Sets Amazon Apart?

It all started with selling books on the Internet a decade before everyone had a smartphone.

Manas Kala
Nov 2 · 5 min read

Amazon has turned 25.

It survived the dot com bubble and the Y2K pandemonium within the first decade. Pets, Webvan, and TheGlobe could not, despite greater promise and amazing marketing campaigns.

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Manas Kala

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PhD Candidate, Osaka University • Writes about — Tech, Success, Startups, & Society • 📧 (cs12m1012@iith.ac.in)

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