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Re:Venture Predation: Using venture finance to price below c... by dynrzk on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:26PM (#36006456)
And then someone sees that people are buying diapers for 10 bucks and starts selling them for 5.
Re:Venture Predation: Using venture finance to price below c... by edmundsauto on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:28PM (#36007058)
The latency between the observation of a market opportunity, and actually realizing lower prices at the consumer level, is significant. Millions of people would be charged monopolistic prices for the year it would take.

This also assumes Amazon doesn’t buy any competitor early on, such as happened with Warby Parker.

Re:Venture Predation: Using venture finance to price below c... by winphone1974 on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:37PM (#36007136)
Except Amazon has the the diaper production locked up, and we're back where Amazon temporarily sells them for 2 bucks while you try and get your diaper factory off the ground.
Re:Venture Predation: Using venture finance to price below c... by otikik on Friday May 19, 2023 @09:22PM (#36008572)
What they will see is “geeze, if we try to sell diapers Amazon will crush us”