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Amazon-Stripe partnership

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258 points polyrand | 2 comments | 23 Jan 23 15:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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l8again ◴[23 Jan 23 15:59 UTC] No.34490403[source]▶
Amazon has its own Uber, own fulfillment service down to monitoring tools that are built in house. So, not sure if it's a change in their "buy vs build" strategy or there's a more business play here to gain traction in the global markets?
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1. karmasimida ◴[23 Jan 23 16:09 UTC] No.34490602[source]▶
It is a deal to keep Stripe lock on AWS. Same with Slack, where Amazon agrees to adopt Slack internally in exchange for Slack to use AWS for video conferencing.

You got to give something in return. In this case I think both parties have something that the other side wants so why not?

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2. kotaKat ◴[23 Jan 23 17:37 UTC] No.34492105[source]▶
Hell, Amazon bought a fairly not insignificant stake in a random no-name Korean handhelds company (Point Mobile). Their devices have been rolling out in FCs to replace Zebra handhelds left and right.

Though... that was also because their main handheld vendor (Zebra) bought their own warehouse robotics company, so a bit of a signal to Zebra that they don't play well when their partners become competitors.

https://renovotec.com/press/amazon-2nd-largest-shareholder-p... https://www.communicationstoday.co.in/koreas-point-mobile-ex...