Kayla Tausche Quotes

We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alibaba. The Chinese market is very wide and deep, with a huge population.

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.

The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

I think Amazon is the greatest start-up and the greatest company in the world. The way they are using new technologies is not just disrupting retail, it's getting ready to disrupt everything.

We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O'Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

The Chinese market is very different. One of the things that I believe is that the biggest, hottest tech trend in China right now is O2O, or online-to-offline.

I think Snapdeal could become the Alibaba of India.

Amazon's been around for 24 years, and now they're doing what any 24-year-old does: move to New York and gentrify a neighborhood.

I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger.

Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts. They take big risks and are pioneering new markets with the promise of big rewards. It's why Amazon is kind of reliably starting new businesses and opening kind of new frontiers.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.

As the rate of technological change in computing slows, the number of jobs for IT specialists will decelerate, then actually turn down; ten years from now, the phrase information economy will sound silly.