ClaimsJeff Bezos

“And our model allows us to hold four copies of inventory vs. hundreds.”

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

Factual Economics and markets

Amazon's business model lets it hold about four copies of an item in inventory rather than hundreds.

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Reasoning

Amazon's internal inventory holdings per item aren't publicly reported.

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Jeff Bezos, “Amazon's business model lets it hold about four copies of an item in inventory rather than hundreds.” (said 2 April 2001). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_361d6408da28, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_361d6408da28

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