ClaimsJeff Bezos

“It’s certainly our fastest growing business, it will eventually be our largest business, and it should also be our most profitable business.”

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, interviewed 2 April 2001 TBT 2001: Jeff Bezos Shares His Cyberspace Odyssey With TWICE (TWICE) archived copy

Prediction Economics and markets

Amazon's consumer electronics business will eventually become its largest business and should be its most profitable.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

'Eventually' has no horizon, so the prediction can't be definitively tested.

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Jeff Bezos, “Amazon's consumer electronics business will eventually become its largest business and should be its most profitable.” (said 2 April 2001). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_2fa80ccb0b02, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_2fa80ccb0b02

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  2. Mostly true Prediction 2 April 2001
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