Marker
Published in

Marker

How Much Value Has Amazon Created for the World?

In his final letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos calculated how much his company has benefited stakeholders. Let’s check his math.

Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images

How much went to shareholders?

The state of “the market” has become a very bad proxy for prosperity. Those lucky enough to own stocks are enjoying boom times; those who do not are left out in the cold.

How did Amazon’s third-party sellers fare?

How about employees?

Amazon was the “worst offender” among a rogues’ gallery of high-tech companies that use aggressive tax avoidance strategies.

Stakeholder value means solving multiple equations simultaneously

--

--

Pop business for the intelligent reader. A publication from Medium.

Get the Medium app

A button that says 'Download on the App Store', and if clicked it will lead you to the iOS App store
A button that says 'Get it on, Google Play', and if clicked it will lead you to the Google Play store
Tim O'Reilly

Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.