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bko • yesterday at 5:56 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Right, because it's totally normal for an online book retailer to grow to $2.5t company. It was just coincidental that Bezos was involved. Plenty of companies grow at this pace for this long.


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ahtihn • yesterday at 6:07 PM

Is it a good thing for society that Amazon grew that large?

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jackb4040 • yesterday at 9:03 PM

His contribution doesn't have to be worth zero to be not worth more than all the engineering and physical workers under him combined.