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Hims Will Beat Amazon, Here is Why

Hims will beat Amazon in the same way Amazon beat larger companies when it was just a startup.

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Oguz Erkan
Dec 04, 2024
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On a chilling Spring day in 1994, Jeff Bezos took a walk in Central Park with his boss David Shaw.

Bezos had just informed Shaw that he wanted to quit to pursue a business idea: Selling books online. Shaw suggested they take a walk.

Shaw himself was an accomplished man with a high entrepreneurial drive. He had also left Morgan Stanley to create his own bu…

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