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Why Some Digital Companies Should Delay Profitability for as Long as They Can

Harvard Business Review

When most of the great companies of the industrial era were founded, even the most brilliant economists believed deeply in the law of diminishing marginal returns. How can you continuously defer short term profitability to grow your network effect? Today, AWS is a much more valuable business for the company’s long-termism.