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Re:How my startup failed (1999) by davidwihl on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:21AM (#13150951)
Amazon revenue was already $1.6B in 1999. Clearly out of startup phase by then.

So it depends on your measure. eCommerce is still a relatively small percentage of GDP, 5.4% of US according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/250703/forecast-of-inter...

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Re:How my startup failed (1999) by tyingq on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:30AM (#13150970)
eCommerce as a percentage of all retail sales is a decent measure.

1999: 0.2%

2015: 8.4%

42x

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ECOMPCTSA

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