Nick Harkaway Quotes

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

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

Alibaba model is the model that I am supporting in China, in India, and even in Japan.

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.

The easier question might be, 'What isn't Alibaba?' The company is only 15 years old, but it has gotten so big over that timeframe that it basically touches every single part of the Chinese economy. I think the simplest comparison to draw is that it is like eBay and Amazon combined.

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

Online business models are still evolving. New and different products and services pop up every day. This gives rise to supporting products and services. A business can make substantial profit by helping others execute their plans for making money.

There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm not here to dispute that Amazon has been personally good for me or to say that they haven't been, so far, good to their customers.

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.

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.

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

Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google.

Booksellers are tied to publishing - they need conventional publishing models to continue - but for those companies, that's not the case. Amazon is an infrastructure company; Apple sells hardware; Google is really an advertising company. You can't afford as a publisher to have those companies control your route to market.

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.

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.

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

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.

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

We really see the future of what we call 'distributed commerce,' so how we get our content, our products, and our brands to consumers.

Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.

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.

Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.