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Originally Posted by darryl
@fjtorres. Don't get me wrong. I still find it enormously humorous. But being outside the US I was missing some of the points you made, which make it even funnier.
I also find it quite humorous that Jess Bezos openly gave them a few tips. Of course, in 1997, what was Jeff Bezos and Amazon to B&N?
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I think he was slyly saying there was no way in heck B&N was ever going to catch up to him.
(edit: For example, B&N didn't get a fast checkout feature on their website until 1999, EXPRESS LANE, and it was too close a copy of Amazon. So they got sued over the 1-click patent and lost. Had to ditch it. Apple just licensed it and put it in iTunes. Of course Apple had a patent portfolio to cross license and B&N didn't. Bezos knew that.)
He doesn't lack for confidence. The dude had a long term blueprint from day one and books were only intended to be the launching pad for the industrial conglomerate he intended to build. Amazon is simply a spectacle unfolding. I don't think we're even close to seeing peak Amazon.
I have no idea what's next but I wouldn't be shocked to see him go after agrarian robotics. That is one market that's going to explode next decade and he has most of the pieces onhand.