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A collection of 34 issues

Amazon's "unfair" advantage in advertising

Amazon started disclosing their advertising revenue from 4Q’21. Before 4Q’21, their ad revenue was “hidden” in “other” segment. Everyone, of course, knew ads was ~80-90% of “other” revenue. Amazon’s other segment grew from quarterly revenue of $1.1 Billion in 3Q’17 to a whopping $8.1

Amazon's Ambition in Groceries: Part 2

Part 1 of this series can be read here Doug Herrington, the current CEO of Amazon Retail, became part of the S-team at Amazon in 2011. Herrington has been a key figure to push Amazon to groceries. Brad Stone in his book “Amazon Unbound” mentioned a particular memo by Herrington

The Promise and Pitfall of Agentic Commerce

We are entering the age of agentic commerce, where autonomous AI agents, acting as our digital deputies, will navigate the endless aisles of online stores, evaluating products and making purchases on our behalf. Agentic commerce promises to crush search frictions and expand the practical consideration set from a handful of

Amazon's Ambition in Groceries: Part 1

Back in 2023, Terry Smith from Fundsmith wrote the following as their rationale to exit their position in Amazon (emphasis mine): Relatively new CEO Andy Jassy enunciated some principles of investment which investment projects had to have, namely: 1. Be big and capable of delivering good returns on capital. 2.

Digital Advertising Snapshot, Corpay 2Q'25, Portfolio Change

Digital Advertising Snapshot As is the tradition in every earnings season, I am sharing my digital advertising Snapshot after 2Q’25 earnings. Three key takeaways: 1. For the nine consecutive quarters, Meta has outpaced Google in terms of incremental share. If Meta’s guide is any indication, that will almost

Some notes from Big Tech 10-Qs

I went through Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet’s 10-Qs during this weekend, so just wanted to highlight some interesting points from their 10-Qs. Meta 2Q’25 10-Q Both Alphabet and Meta now disclose total employee compensation expenses. One of the surprising data points for me was that almost half of

Amazon 2Q'25, Portfolio Change

A programming note: For my next Deep Dive, I am currently working on Union Pacific which I will publish sometime later this month. After Union Pacific, I will do a Deep Dive on ASML in September. You can find all the past 61 Deep Dives here. Subscribe Amazon 2Q’25

Video on NotebookLM, Amazon's response to WSJ, Brown & Brown 2Q'25

I have been using NotebookLM pretty frequently for the last 6 months or so. It’s pretty neat to feed a report to NotebookLM and make a podcast out of it which I can then listen during my daily walk. Yesterday, they launched video feature. So, now I can feed

Tariff conundrums, AI capex boom, Edge computing fallacy, AI ARR chicanery

A Programming Note: A couple of you have given me the feedback that instead of generic title of the Daily Doses, I should mention the topics covered in the title/email subject. As you can see, I have decided to implement it from today. Tariff conundrums While there was a

MBI Daily Dose (July 15, 2025)

Companies or topics mentioned in today's Daily Dose: Future of Enterprise software, Some cold water on AI productivity, AWS vs GCP A Programming Note: A number of you have asked whether the Daily Dose might be a short-term experiment. Given the positive feedback I have received so far,