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Ford had a US$657 million IPO in 1956.

You can easily argue their hegemony lasted at least 60 years.

Amazon's public IPO was 1997. We are now ~20+ years in to their life as a public company.

How do you view Amazon if you believe they have another 40 years of unfettered leadership? How big does this company get? There are very few structural limits to their growth other than this logistics issue. (Ford was hardly unfettered, but as a public company performed much better, over a longer period of time, than the other auto makers).



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