Land of the Giants
Land of the Giants
Vox
How Amazon Charmed Wall Street
37 minutes Posted Aug 20, 2019 at 1:00 am.
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When Amazon became a publicly traded company  in 1997, it was losing money. And it wouldn’t turn a profit for years. So how did it convince Wall Street to do something unprecedented: Turn a blind eye to profit? And how did that help Amazon become one of the world’s most valuable companies today -- and how did it change the way tech companies grow?

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