How AWS is like a VC (from @stratechery)

This is great from Amazon’s perspective: the company effectively has a stake in nearly every significant startup, and for free; if the company succeeds, Amazon will be paid, handsomely, and if they fail, well, Amazon covered their own costs of providing cloud services along the way.

via The AWS IPO – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.

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