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Rayapati: Trilogy paid more than Google and Microsoft in mid-2000s India
“They used to hire like, ah, top of the top, you know. And, ah, they used to pay a lot more than Google, Microsoft Amazon, you know, any of these players back then, right?”
Wakefit was likely the first brand to sell mattresses on Amazon India
“So I happened to be the first one probably who started mattresses on Amazon.”
Lunia: Amazon still has not conclusively taken India's top e-commerce spot
“I mean, it's been like six years since Amazon entered, they still haven't taken the number one spot conclusively.”
Sidana: Microsoft and Amazon went public at market caps under $1B
“Companies like Microsoft, Amazon, they went public at hundreds of millions of dollars of market cap. People forget that. Not billion, not even one billion, less than one billion market cap, they became public companies.”
Sasi: Dark web markets sell stolen credit cards for five dollars
“In fact, you go to the dark web, you can buy the credit card of someone for five dollars. You can buy, there will be listings like Amazon listing, where you can actually buy the data of any company and their employees and including their salary, payslips and a…”
Shenoy: Apple and Amazon's Combined Market Cap Exceeds All Indian Listed Companies
“Add Amazon and Apple. The market caps are greater than all of Indian listed companies combined.”
Anand: Global e-commerce advertising spend totals roughly $300 billion
“E-commerce advertising alone is, you know, Amazon and everybody else put together is about three hundred billion, right?”
Bhatia: Jeff Bezos deliberately kept Amazon unprofitable for 17 years
“For 17 years, he kept you know Amazon unprofitable, but had a vision that lets, the harder the problem, the better off we are.”
boAt built its audio business by disrupting distribution via e-commerce marketplaces
“We have a company called Boat, which has now built a very large Mobile accessory business primarily audio headsets and earphones and wireless speakers, which has disrupted the whole approach of how this business can be built, working with partners like Amazon,…”