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Sacks: Amazon is the scariest monopoly because it endlessly expands into adjacencies
“I think he's the scariest monopolist out of the whole bunch. You know, if you look at kind of Amazon versus say Google or Facebook or Apple, I mean, those other companies are sort of sticking to their original footprint. Whereas Amazon keeps expanding into new…”
Chamath Palihapitiya: Amazon has 35% to 40% warehouse employee churn
“Amazon has 35 or 40% churn inside of their warehouses.”
Calacanis: Amazon is top pick for company of the future via AI efficiency
“Amazon, which is like my number one pick for like the company of the future, they're going to be able to do so much more with so many fewer people.”
Calacanis notes Amazon's total headcount declined from its 2021 peak
“The actual peak employment there was 1.6 million in 2021, and it's now 1.55 in 2025.”
Calacanis: Headcounts at Meta, Uber, and Amazon have dropped from peak levels
“You know, Meta peaked at 86,000 employees now at 75. Uber at 33, now at 31. And Amazon, where you would think you'd have a lot of growth here they're at, they peaked at 1.6 and now they're down at 1.55.”
Cliffton: Packages under eight pounds comprise 95 percent of Amazon deliveries
“The system is designed to deliver up to eight pounds, and eight pounds gets you like, 95% of all packages delivered by Amazon. I think it's like, 95% of food delivery orders.”
Calacanis: Amazon's $20M deal equals 1% of New York Times revenue
“That twenty million dollars from Amazon alone is one percent of the New York Times revenue, and that's going to go directly to the bottom line.”
Trump claims Big Tech is investing $320 billion in AI infrastructure
“Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft are all investing three hundred and twenty billion dollars or more in data centers and AI infrastructure this year.”
Chamath: Amazon will be a kingmaker in physical AI
“For physical AI, they're a kingmaker in parts because they're a sink for demand. So they'll just generate so much demand for robots.”
Friedberg: Amazon paid MrBeast for 'Beast Games' distribution deal
“Jimmy's getting a deal from Amazon. Amazon paid him for the Beast games.”
Chamath: Broadcom is a $1.12T business that receives little attention
“Is that it is the only trillion dollar company that nobody talks about. Everybody knows Nvidia. Everybody knows Amazon Meta, but Broadcom is a 1.12 trillion dollar business.”
Calacanis: Digital ad gains shift to Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and Uber
“All the gains in advertising have gone to those two firms and now TikTok obviously. And Amazon, Uber building respectable ad businesses as well. So all of that takes ads out of publications and puts it closer to the point of purchase, right?”
Lütke: Amazon Prime is probably a better brand than Amazon in some cases
“Prime is a credible brand. It's probably a better brand than Amazon in some cases.”
Friedberg: Portfolio companies moved ad spend from Google and Meta to Amazon
“I know this from experience on a couple boards. I'm at where companies stopped spending on Facebook and Google and just started spending exclusively on Amazon.”
Chamath Palihapitiya cites market data showing Google holds 26.5% of digital ads
“Google controls 26.5% of a market. 43.4% of that market is with a diverse group of others. Meta has 18.4%, and Amazon has 11.7.”
Friedberg: Amazon will massively expand One Medical telehealth within a year
“I will bet you guys, I will bet you guys a dollar that within a year after closing the deal, They're going to massively expand the telehealth footprint of what medical is doing.”
Chamath: Amazon achieved escape velocity on under $1B invested capital
“Amazon got escape velocity on less than, you know, a billion dollars of invested capital.”
Chamath: Jeff Bezos sold $6.6B of Amazon stock in 2021
“Bezos had a track record of selling roughly a billion dollars of Amazon stock every year, and this year he, you know, snap sold 6.6 billion.”
Calacanis notes recent AWS outage crippled 2,000 companies for 15 hours
“Monday, massive AWS outage, 2000 companies, four million users unable to function on the internet for half a day, 15 hours, 20 hours.”
Cliffton: 5.5 billion instant deliveries take place annually in the US
“There are now five and a half billion instant deliveries being done every year just in the US. And that's not like Amazon or UPS. That's just the instant deliveries.”
JCal: Seven tech stocks drive most of 2023 stock market gains
“Seven stocks make up the mo- most of the gains this year. Meta, Tesla, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple.”
Calacanis: Almost 90 Amazon VPs or higher left since 2021
“Almost 90 VPs or higher level execs have left Amazon since 2021.”
Friedberg: Amazon reached 25% delivery share in 2020, surpassing FedEx and UPS
“At the end of 2020, Amazon was already up to 25% market share which put them ahead of both FedEx and UPS.”
Friedberg: Amazon is cancelling plans for 15 U.S. warehouses
“Now they're realizing the demand is not going to be there. And they're cutting back on 15 warehouses around the country and not going to build them.”