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You're transported back in time to 1994. How do you outcompete Amazon? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by IndolentInsolent@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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You're transported back to 1994 with all your current knowledge and $50,000. Your goal is to create the world's biggest online shopping company.

How do you go about it?

As a further thought experiment, if you travelled back to 1960 with all your current knowledge and the goal of becoming the richest person on earth, what businesses would you start?

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[–] myxyplyxy@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Ok. I will play. Because i started building online in 1994. Here is the truth, we spent well over 50k trying not to build amazon. The internet then was a wonderful place. What you are asking is like: go back to haight asbury in 1968 and plot how you will turn every corner into a chik-fil-a or Starbucks. It is absolutely missing the point. The point is never: how can we isolate all of the riches to ourselves at the expense of humanity, but rather how can we not do that! Give me 50k and 1994 and the only real answer is to buy amazon stock to shut it down. Which only delays the hateful march of commerce and its destruction of human culture. Short of that i would give the money and knowledge to the EFF to help them protect us from what we have wrought.