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jakarta on Oct 22, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon P/E ratio 3x that of Apple and Google

But being a leading retailer doesn't make you great. Zappos I believe had razor thin margins that really left little room for error.

mlinsey on Oct 22, 2010 | [–]

Amazon is accustomed to operating at razor thin margins. It's one of the advantages they believe they have in the cloud computing business compared to Microsoft and Google.

smackfu on Oct 22, 2010 | [–]

Buy revenue, then worry about profits.

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