Digital Marketplace Quotes

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

All of the business of selling apps and selling subscriptions is extremely cruelly misunderstood, including by me.

After I retired, it seemed to me that there was a whole new world out there, which was a digital world driven by a marketplace, basically, which had a huge potential driven by handheld devices, which would one day become the virtual retail store of India.

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription.

I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I've always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.

I was an eBay addict before my first album hit big. I wanted to go on this tour of the world, so I started selling everything on eBay.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

There's no reason why there needs to be one search engine or one social network or one store that we buy all of our crap from. It's possible to imagine a world in which there's actually competition.

For Americans, with the advent of the U.S. invention of the Internet, free speech is not just open dissemination of ideas and information. It includes limitless instant access to those ideas and the ability to choose and search from among virtually unlimited sources. It is also the backbone of free enterprise and a vibrant global economy.

I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

The Fresh Direct model doesn't work.

We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.

Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.

I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Roblox is free. The dev tools are free. Anyone can come in and play with Roblox Studio and make a game and push it to our cloud and have it be playable.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

We've invented a new marketplace. There was no easy way to rent a person's bedroom over the Internet or book a vacation rental over the Internet. There was no guidebook for us to turn to as we defined this new marketplace.

Shutterstock's ability to cultivate a healthy and expanding marketplace for both customers and contributors remains a key competitive advantage and a crucial component of our sustained growth.