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Said differently, if your business is standalone e-commerce selling third-party brands, good luck. You can’t generate enough operating profit to scale beyond getting noticed, counter-attacked, and at best acquired.
Andy Dunn • E-Commerce is a Bear
product manager, a product designer,
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
A junior software engineer came up with this idea that we could offer people kind of an all-you-can-eat buffet of fast, free shipping.
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
“Amazon is designed to commoditize products to the lowest common denominator of what they stand for,” Joey Zwillinger, Allbirds’s co-founder
Yiren Lu • Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon? (Published 2020)
“Jeff was super clear from the beginning,” says Neil Roseman. “If somebody else can sell it cheaper than us, we should let them and figure out how they are able to do it.”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
—Tina Jiang, Product Manager at Faire
Aashay Sanghvi • Five Startup Ideas #002 | The Generalist
-On-demand delivery companies will invest in and incubate DTC brands