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True, but why don't more tech companies follow Amazon's lead of tempering shareholder expectations? Is Amazon somehow unique in being able to do this?


Amazon is in great financial position, but they reinvest all net revenue. So I guess they don't qualify as constant profit (now) but they count as growth, with eventual high profit


Kind of, because they're still making buttloads of money. I also don't know offhand what percentage of stock Bezos and Co own. Google is able to get away with a lot of this because 1). They still make buttloads of money, and 2). Larry and Sergei own the majority of stock (at least I'm pretty sure they do).




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