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What’s even wilder is that Amazon made no profit for the first 20 years of its existence, something the Feds claim makes Amazon even more dangerous as they spent considerable time building their network and have now turned on full money making mode.
Do you mean Amazon the website? Surely they were making money somehow…
It means for the first 20 years they spent all of their profit on expansion / R&D