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Re:Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company by skinnymuch on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:56AM (#14708227)
I agree with hn_throwaway_. Amazon having no chance in people's eyes and being discarded by everyone seems to be an exaggeration.

I wasn't even in middle school/junior high when I and some other classmates started using Amazon. We loved using it for getting books. There was no weirdness about it. In fact, in my memories, using Amazon was completely normal and seemed like a good idea. This would be in 2000 and 2001.

Re:Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company by taysic on Thursday July 06, 2017 @01:08AM (#14708270)
Obvious to a young person like you. Clearly Amazon understood their market. But it was not obvious to entrenched businesses and all investors. Even Warren Buffet admits he made a mistake about Google.
Re:Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company by skinnymuch on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @12:10AM (#14741518)
Warren Buffett said those things very recently. He has always been against most tech and web companies because he doesn't understand the space. Buffett was already entering his 70s once the dot com bubble burst and you could look at companies in a better sense. I can see a good example being used. I don't think Buffett is one though.