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Amazon became Amazon by doing it all.

It's a bookstore, first-party marketplace,

their party marketplace, does web services, hardware, voice computing. It's a grocer.

It's a movie studio. You get the picture. But look, as the good times rolled, Amazon's focus

just loosened a bit. And then all of a sudden, a company known for its frugality,

was starting to spend out of control and spread its resources just a bit

too thin. The company is now engaged in the largest layoff for any tech company over the past

year and the largest in its history. And along with that comes a push toward focus.

For Amazon right now, the big question really is, what does it focus on? And what is it, really?

It's a bit of an identity crisis.

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