In Amazon’s first letter to shareholders after going public in 1997, Bezos had focused on the company’s “established long-term relationships with many important strategic partners, including America Online, Yahoo!, Excite, Netscape, GeoCities, AltaVista, @Home, and Prodigy.” They’d all be dead or dying soon enough, except Bezos, who was feral enough to survive the coming cataclysm.
