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Amazon is a logistics beast - A detailed teardown
Tightly controlling distribution allowed the company to make specific promises to customers on when they could expect their purchases to arrive. Amazon’s operating all of its own technology, from the supply chain to the website, allowed Russell Allgor and his engineers to create algorithms that modeled countless scenarios for each order so systems
... See moreBrad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
In both cases, Amazon looked beyond the function to the form. The function of Whole Foods stores was to sell groceries, but the stores took the form of a massive real estate footprint with storage and refrigeration that could be repurposed for distribution. The function of Amazon’s computing infrastructure was for internal support, but its form—a m
... See moreOzan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
So why is Amazon so good in virtually every industry it gets into? The answer: Amazon isn’t a tech company or a cloud company or a diapers or books or healthcare company. It’s an infrastructure company.[1452]