> They’re saying that starting a competitor to Amazon is now impossible regardless of capital investment.

Competing in which market? Amazon is a conglomerate operating in e-commerce, retail, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment, and artificial intelligence.

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ceejayoz 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That breadth is part of why competing is so tough.

	▲	andsoitis 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> That breadth is part of why competing is so tough. I don't see it. In each of the industries they operate in, they face fierce competition. Many of those competitors also compete with Amazon across multiple of those industries plus others that Amazon does not compete in. Competition is by definition tough. But I push back against the original thesis that Amazon has such leverage that it is impossible to compete with them (in all the cases, you're not just competing against them!)