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Marc Lore: Retail search engines will be obsolete in 20 years
“The idea of like search engine, 20 years from now is going to be laughably like the cassette tape. It's like, wait, so dad used to like go, you wanted to buy a toast and you typed in toaster in this like search engine and you had 10,000 responses and you had t…”
Marc Lore May 26, 2021 ▶ 43:29 Billionaire Marc Lore on What He Would Build Today and Future of Ecommerce | My First Million #186
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Marc Lore: Walmart's Jet Black made customers drop Amazon Prime
“Yeah, I mean, we had something called Jet Black when I was at Walmart, and we it was basically this for New York City primarily parents, and it was gangbusters. I mean, it was like, you know, people stopped using Amazon Prime. It was, they just dropped it. It'…”
Marc Lore May 26, 2021 ▶ 44:56 Billionaire Marc Lore on What He Would Build Today and Future of Ecommerce | My First Million #186
Assertion Supported
Marc Lore: Jet.com was a bigger financial outcome than Diapers.com
“I think, no, Jet definitely. I mean, Walmart stock doubled over the last four and a half years, so that was a good one.”
Marc Lore May 26, 2021 ▶ 3:34 Billionaire Marc Lore on What He Would Build Today and Future of Ecommerce | My First Million #186
Assertion Supported
Marc Lore: Apparel e-commerce return rates sit at 40%
“You know, return rates on apparel are 40%.”
Marc Lore May 26, 2021 ▶ 54:36 Billionaire Marc Lore on What He Would Build Today and Future of Ecommerce | My First Million #186
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