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Re:Jet.com’s Valuation Nears $600M Before Launch by eloff on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @10:29PM (#9037212)
That sounds good in theory, but there's no way to know if it will be like that in practice. Those are unproven assumptions when applied to a new entity. Many of the same things could have been said of Pets.com. Just like no battle plan survives contact with the enemy, no startup survives contact with its customers.
Re:Jet.com’s Valuation Nears $600M Before Launch by x0x0 on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @11:04PM (#9037310)
No doubt it's a big gamble, but amazon's market cap is is $173B. That justifies a big gamble.
Re:Jet.com’s Valuation Nears $600M Before Launch by kolev on Thursday February 12, 2015 @12:09AM (#9037495)
They have a very long way to reach Amazon and that's given that Amazon stays still all the years to come!