Amazon: incubator of retail C.E.O.s?

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The Internet giant Amazon continues to grow online retail sales, reaching 38% of all U.S. retail e-commerce sales in 2019, according to eMarketer (data to June 2019). Meanwhile, the Seattle giant is spreading its methods into the business corporate world through an “Amazon alumni diaspora”. People are moving as ex-Amazon staff to become retail C.E.O.s or start-up Founders. Examples are former Amazon executives such as Jeff Yurcisin, president of Zulily, an e-commerce company focused on flash sa

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