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Old 04-07-2019, 02:55 PM   #1043 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JSH View Post
Amazon has been profitable since 2009. Their recent spike in profits is from their AWS division. The retail business is still basically break-even. That is not surprising as retail has VERY low margins, lower than even making cars.
In that case it took Amazon 15 years to be profitable (founded in 1994).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)

Which is in line with Tesla (founded in 2003).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.
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