Warren Buffet’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders has been required reading for investors for decades. Now Jeff Bezos’s annual letter — the latest was released April 11 — is gaining the same kind of currency. Wall Street analysts (and CNBC’s Jim Cramer) view it as an invaluable window into the strategic focus of Amazon.com — the world’s largest online marketplace and cloud computing company. To understand where Bezos is taking his famously secretive business, which has disrupted industry after industry, many analysts say there’s no better indicator than his letter.
Amazon’s Priorities Over the Years, Based on Jeff Bezos’s Letters to Shareholders
He really does talk a lot about customers.
May 17, 2019
Summary.
A textual analysis reveals that customers are indeed the main concern. But they’re not the only thing on Jeff Bezos’s mind.
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