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Re:How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America... by azemetre on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:06PM (#16585757)
Apparently people (the investor class) are upset that a company has the audacity to the invest in itself rather than pay out dividends.

The absolute horror.

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Re:How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America... by dpark on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:50PM (#16586129)
Most actual investors in Amazon were never upset by this. They bought with the full knowledge that Bezos was playing a long game.
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Re:How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America... by kevin_b_er on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:02PM (#16586863)
They also fended off any sort of corporate raiders/vulture capitalists who could leverage a billion in debt, buy it out, take it private, then strip it of assets.
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Re:How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America... by maxerickson on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:55PM (#16586190)
Growing tech companies have never really been expected to pump out dividends.

Microsoft didn't pay one until 2003, when it was 28 years old and sitting on $43 billion in cash (and then it declared an annual dividend totalling less than $1 billion).

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