iliveinseattle

He is an individual contributor

market cap as a percent of gdp is a very bad indicator. In today's world a very large and increasing percentage of revenues is derived from outside the U.S.

feels like this person is overreacting. You should also not be sharing any questions that were asked.

I've worked at Amazon. Let me tell you, this is all part of the strategy. At an all hands sometime ago bezos took questions from employees regarding the worry around profitability. He basically said Amazon has to lose a lot of money to reach a massive scale and only then will they become profitable. However every once in a while they'll show a profit to check in with reality and Wall Street.

I live in Seattle and and I'm not surprised by the 15% figure. But that will change. The majority of Seattle is not developed yet and there's a lot of new construction going on. Give it a few years for all the current development to finish and your going to see significantly more apartment and office buildings. So the 15% figure will start to go down.