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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

The article (it's behind a seemingly unbreachable paywall) has acquired the reputation of having marked the end of the dot-com boom. By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. After that the No.