How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 30, 2013
By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Nobody complains.
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