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How Amazon Charmed Wall Street

How Amazon Charmed Wall Street

FromLand of the Giants


How Amazon Charmed Wall Street

FromLand of the Giants

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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Aug 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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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Released:
Aug 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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