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Lou Whiteman

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

It has to be one or the other.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

And I doubt it's A, and I don't think they're going to be B. So I think they're a player here, but I don't think they're just going to annihilate everyone or take everyone's business.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

The why now is a great question.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

And to some extent, the answer is this was always the plan.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

So it might just be they've built out the critical mass to make it possible.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

And so they're just doing it now because they can.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

Tyler, I do think that this could be a sign of a capital constrained company, because the weird thing about this is they have to build all of this for their own.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

So instead of adding CapEx in a way, this offsets CapEx.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

If you can monetize some of it, turn it into revenue.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

So in a world where Amazon does have to continue to scale logistics and they are trying to spend billions in a data center,

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

maybe trying to get some of that logistics spending covered by third parties.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

If you think of it that way, instead of just kind of investing in the business kind of just for the revenue, I think it might make more sense.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

But again, I do think it speaks to what Matt was saying.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

It speaks to the limits to the ambitions here in terms of just wiping out an industry versus just trying to generate some revenue off of it.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

One thing I caution people on, too, is that the data center comparison is obvious with AWS.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

I don't think it is a great like for like, though, because chips are chips.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

Data center is data center.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Shopify Retreats, Amazon Attacks

It's kind of just, if not commoditized, it is pretty close.