Packable, last year the #1 seller on Amazon Marketplace in the U.S., is liquidating. A year ago, they were planning a SPAC deal at a $1.5 billion valuation. I hope to someday read the inside story of how this business […]
Musings by two MBA professors who specialize in the healthcare industry: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley Staats. “Amazon has a playbook for reinventing businesses that it enters. It includes simplifying processes, experimenting to determine which new approaches work best, and […]
A deep dive into the recently announced acquisition of “the O.G. tech enabled primary care platform.” One tidbit I was missing is that half of One Medical’s revenue in Q1 2022 came from Medicare. | learn more
“Black-hat international sellers … hide behind shell businesses and fake names. if they get popped for writing fake reviews or selling a product that kills someone, they just show up next week under a new account.” | learn more
“Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people to hire in its US warehouses by 2024, according to leaked Amazon internal research from mid-2021 that Recode reviewed.” | learn more
This is a McKinsey post about the advertising businesses built on top of major retailers. Considering Amazon’s ad side hustle is a $30B+ business already, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard the term RMN before. | learn more
This is from Amazon’s PR team so they didn’t miss an opportunity to state that over the past 10 years they’ve added almost twice as many human workers as robotic ones. Check it out if you’re curious to see their […]
A post co-authored by Ali Hamed and Meghan Hillery highlights the dynamics at play in the world of marketplace sellers, especially among the aggregators who have attracted so much capital over the past couple years. “The TL;DR: 2022 will be […]
So, Amazon’s launched a new $1 billion fund to invest in warehouse tech. “The Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund will focus on new technologies that will “increase delivery speed and further improve the experience” of warehouse and logistics employees, Alex Ceballos […]
“Amazon has introduced a dizzying array of services — Prime Now, Fresh, Go and others — in its effort to become a giant in the $750 billion U.S. grocery market. In 2017, it spent $13.7 billion to acquire Whole Foods, […]