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Stahl: HILOS operating profit margins will exceed Google and Amazon next year
“The, if you look at profit, we are, our operating profit by next year will be over. More profitable than Google or Amazon, because we don't fundamentally invest or hold the costs of the things that we fulfill for brands.”
Kugel: Amazon has tried to enter tires and failed to figure it out
“And you have companies like Amazon trying to get into tires, and they have not really figured it out.”
Srinivasan: Spot On Can Coexist With Uber Like Chewy Did Amazon
“If we think about it, Chewy.com is in the world of Amazon. They're doing amazing. Rover is in the world of Airbnb. So if those guys can do it, then yeah, Spot On has a space in Uber and Lyft's world as well.”
Debbie Wei Mullen: Consumers demand an omnichannel retail experience
“You know, people want an omnichannel experience. They want to be able to buy it online. They want to be able to buy it at the corner store. They want to be able to buy it on Amazon.”
Lee: Anyone trying to compete with Amazon is foolish
“We're not trying to compete with them by any means. You know, personally, I think anyone who does is foolish”
Nadel: Amazon's delivery network threatens Shipsi's business
“They're building their own delivery network, which has significantly bad implications for Shipsy in my view.”
Manus: Amazon will compete in retail delivery within one to two years
“I'm thinking more like a year down the line. I'm thinking a year to do two years down the line. I, to be able to turn that on is nothing for them.”
Lee: Amazon's delivery news does not impact Shipsi's business
“It actually doesn't, I don't believe it impacts our business.”
Saxton: Amazon controls only about 20% of the market
“Amazon only controls about 20% of the market right now.”
Hyatt: Amazon shipping announcement prevented his investment in Shipsi
“And then right afterwards Amazon kind of came out and said they're getting into the kind of shipping business and kind of making it shipping for all. And I think that muddied the waters a little for me. I just couldn't get comfortable enough that they were goi…”
Kennison: International Amazon expansion will double Robe Curls' US revenue
“500,000 dollars would be put towards Amazon international inventory, which we know for a fact that we would be basically doubling our Amazon current U.S. Revenue with a matter of 10 countries.”
Kennison: Robe Curls faced about 3,000 weekly Amazon copycat sellers
“For about six months of last year, we had about 3000 new sellers each week popping up with copycats, knockoffs, counterfeits of our product.”
Salhi: Amazon, Audible, and Tidal bought Qleek's NFC products
“We got Amazon. Audible was buying our stuff. We got title to buy our stuff.”
Saxton: Tot Squad retains roughly 50% on $80 Amazon installations
“Amazon gets 20% of that, so we pay them 16 dollars. We pay the car seat installer 25 dollars so that's 41 dollars out of the 80 are paid out, and then we keep roughly 50% just to do the customer service, et cetera.”