Amazon

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14 statements across 11 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jan 19, 2022 by Sahil Bloom · said 222 times in 103 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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brought up most by Greg Isenberg (59), Sahil Bloom (18), Nicolas Cole (8), Jason Calacanis (8), Cody Schneider (7), Oren (Oren Meets World) (6), Jonathan Courtney (6), Andy Dunn (6)

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2025 29 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
2024 77 mentions in 34 episodes 2 per episode
2023 25 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
2022 58 mentions in 22 episodes 3 per episode
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about Amazon, oldest first

Jan 19, 2022 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Dogecoin Beat Apple and Amazon in Retail Trading Volume Last Year
“Doge was the, over the past 12 months, the fourth most traded asset across all retail brokers and exchanges. And it was, it beat out by the way, it beat out Apple, Amazon, and the SPY index, the S&P. It was literally behind Tesla, Bitcoin, and Ethereum”
Sahil Bloom Jan 19, 2022 ▶ 39:08 Memes Rule The World with Dogecoin Creator Billy Markus | Where It Happens
Feb 10, 2022 bullish
Assertion Supported
Finkelstein: Shopify GMV ranks second behind Amazon in US online retail
“If you pretend we were retailer, we would be the second largest online retailer in America after Amazon.”
Harley Finkelstein Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 45:01 Forget Zero Sum, Be Positive Sum with Harley Finkelstein | Where It Happens
Feb 10, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Finkelstein: Amazon controls 35% to 45% of US e-commerce
“In the neighborhood of 35 to 45% of all e-commerce in the United States is done on Amazon.”
Harley Finkelstein Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 40:40 Forget Zero Sum, Be Positive Sum with Harley Finkelstein | Where It Happens
Jun 2, 2022 negative
Opinion
Wolfe praises Bezos as rational capital allocator, criticizing Musk's truthfulness
“And the quibble is with his relationship with the truth. And I look at Gates and I look at Bezos, both of whom I admire for different reasons. Bezos in particular, who I consider one of the greatest and most rational capital allocators, the amount of capital t…”
Josh Wolfe Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 54:27 How to Invent and Invest In the Future with Josh Wolfe
Jan 13, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Lavingia: Over 90% of startup value comes from engineer-founded giants
“If you look at startups and you say, okay, 99% of the public value is basically, or 90 plus percent is basically in four or five companies. Right? If you get rid of, like, Google, Amazon, Meta, like, we haven't done shit as an industry, right? In terms of actu…”
Sahil Lavingia Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 27:02 Sahil Lavingia Gets Radically Honest
Apr 20, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Isenberg: Incumbents like Amazon hold an unfair AI advantage over startups
“Some of the bigger retailers and e-commerce players like the Amazons of the world have so much more data that they actually have an unfair advantage If they want to go down this route, because you could get into a situation where, you know, your Carly bot oper…”
Greg Isenberg Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 27:27 The Secret Strategies of Top DTC Brands with Nik Sharma
Jan 25, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kagan: Publishers avoid green business book covers due to industry superstition
“What was really interesting, if you go look on Amazon or a bookstore, there's no green business books. Which is kind of funny given that a lot of business is about money. They think it's taboo or bad luck, but we tested it and I also like the color myself.”
Noah Kagan Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 1:12 How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan
May 22, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cole: Lit RPG on Amazon has far more readers than writers
“What's so interesting about this subcategory on Amazon is that there's way more readers than there are creators. There's a lot more people who want to read lit RPGs than there are people writing it.”
Nicolas Cole May 22, 2024 ▶ 4:54 3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid (steal these $300k/month ideas)
May 22, 2024
Insight
Cole: Publish novel genres widely, niche books on Kindle Unlimited
“If you're creating something new, you publish it wide, but if you're creating something really niche, ah, you should look at the existing categories in Kindle Unlimited, and then basically, like, try and stay in that category, and then you're just playing the …”
Nicolas Cole May 22, 2024 ▶ 3:31 3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid (steal these $300k/month ideas)
May 22, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cole: Top Lit RPG books generate $250,000 per month
“There are lit RPG books right now doing like a quarter million a month.”
Nicolas Cole May 22, 2024 ▶ 6:21 3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid (steal these $300k/month ideas)
Jan 5, 2026 positive
Insight
Sub-4.0 Amazon ratings signal easy product opportunities, like dog pee pads
“There's, you know, washable pee pads for senior dogs and the average rating is 3.88. So like that's a bad rating, right? So that means that there's an opportunity to create great products and it's giving you, it's telling you why people aren't enjoying the pro…”
Greg Isenberg Jan 5, 2026 ▶ 8:40 Watch me use AI to make millions in ecommerce
Jan 16, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thompson: An Amazon seller made $30M selling hummingbird nectar without ads
“There's a guy on Amazon that's done thirty million dollars selling sugar as hummingbird nectar on over the last 10 years. And his branding is like atrocious, has never ran a Facebook ad in his life.”
Samuel Thompson Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 13:19 I Spent $289 So AI Could Build My Business
Feb 16, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chu: Zero-backlink tap water directory reached 40,000 monthly visitors in months
“This guy named Andy in our community, but a tap water quality directory, no backlinks started it back in, I want to say November and he's getting over 40,000 monthly visitors got accepted into the media vine selling like water filters through Amazon affiliate.”
Frey Chu Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 41:19 Claude Code built me a $273/Day online directory
Mar 24, 2026 positive
Insight
Isenberg: Amazon sellers gladly pay $99/mo to spot product gaps
“Amazon sellers will gladly pay 99 dollars a month to find product gaps before competitors do.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 24, 2026 ▶ 19:36 Firecrawl AI clearly explained (and how to make $$)
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