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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. Once investors stopped giving it free money, the company quickly cut back on its investments and its losses. Nobody complains.