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0 pointslibertine5y ago0 comments

>What does monopoly have to do with market cap?

Well my point is that 50% of a 100 million USD market is different from 50% of 1 trillion USD market. On the later you don't that much market share to pull your weight on the market.

>If companies were to be broken for profits, there are so many companies ahead of Amazon.

That wouldn't work, specially with the gymnastics that's done.

>But there is no industry in which Amazon is a monopoly.

Not even AWS?

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enitihas5y ago

How is AWS a monopoly? There are several competitors, two with similar market cap as Amazon and likely more cash in the bank. AWS neither builds on any pre existing monopoly, not is being used to push another product.

Contrast this with Azure, which greatly benefited from the Windows and Office monopoly. I am pretty sure the Windows, AD, Office monopoly is the prime reason Azure is where it is today.

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