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Evans: Tech giants occupy the top five spots by market valuation
“Today, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and yes, Microsoft are all the five, are the five biggest companies on the stock exchange.”
Evans: Big Tech annual capital expenditure reached $34 billion in 2015
“Annual capex across these companies has gone from one billion dollars in 2000 to thirty four billion dollars in 2015.”
Evans: E-commerce represents 10% to 12% of US retail revenue
“E-commerce is about 10 to 12% of US retail revenue, a little bit more in some other countries, a little bit less in some others. Amazon is at least two percent of that.”
Pande: Computational biology tasks requiring global computing power in 2000 run easily on AWS today
“What we could do 15 years ago required almost all the computers on the planet. Now that's something that we can do easily on something like Amazon.”
Amazon required 10 to 50 times more employees than early eBay
“When, early on when I was managing eBay, Amazon had 10 times, 50 times more employees than we did, because they were building warehouses, they were picking out of their own warehouses, they were shipping, they were procuring merchandise, you know, the whole th…”
Amazon's third-party marketplace volume surpassed its first-party retail volume
“And according to the analysts last year, Amazon sold more product from third parties than they did as a first party merchant.”
Evans: Amazon accounts for only 1.5% of US retail revenue
“Amazon only has about one and a half percent of the entire US retail industry by revenue excluding automotive and gasoline and things like that.”