“You have to have a unique product that Amazon just can't source. It's ...” — Julie Wainwright Quote

“You have to have a unique product that Amazon just can't source. It's all about the product. Why is it important? Why is it different? Amazon are not merchants. They are technology platform guys.”

“Here is what the world looked like in 2000... there were no plug and play solutions for ecommerce/warehouse management and customer service that could scale... which means that we had to employ 40+ engineers. Cloud computing did not exist, which means that we had to have a server farm and several IT people to insure that the site did not go down.”

“The best merchants in the world aren't the ones predicting what's cool next; we're the ones dictating what's cool next.”

“To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.”

“As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.”