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How do you reconcile this belief with big tech companies being some of the largest bureaucracies on Earth, yet they continually build incredible and unique products?



What big tech company built a unique product well after they were big?

* Google is still mostly search

* Amazon is still mostly an online store (small exception with AWS, but that was charcoal[0])

* Meta is still mostly facebook (unique products were acquired)

etc.

0 - https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita...


> Amazon is still mostly an online store (small exception with AWS, but that was charcoal[0])

What? I would express the opposite of this sentiment. Amazon is mostly AWS. Their online store's profit pales in comparison to AWS.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/07/07/aws-chief-says-ama...

> Amazon overall generated $24.8 billion in operating profits in 2021, and AWS was responsible for $18.5 billion (or 74%) of it. Basically, a business segment that contributes 14% of overall revenue is generating roughly three-quarters of Amazon's total operating profits.


That's because Amazon's strategy was to not focus on profits in the first place.

https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/annual/2...


Doesn't Amazon bucket their store ads (sponsored listings) under AWS?


Right, I'm saying AWS is an outlier.




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