Amazon was once a bookstore with a simple idea: be bigger and we'll sell more stuff. It then opened a marketplace and invested in fulfillment and search, becoming more successful than eBay around 2010 when seller take was below 20%, allowing sellers to build sustainable businesses.

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Speaker

Tim Wu

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Around 20 10 or something like that, was fulfilling what I think... the dream of of the internet age

Source

We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:41 PM

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