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🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Join Motley Fool Analysts Asit Sharma and Emily Flippen as they dig into the business of “aggregating Amazon”, and the small private and public companies creating a $200 billion industry from the ground up.

Stocks: Mohawk Group Holdings (NASDAQ: MWK), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Walmart (NYSE: WMT)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.
0:11.0	I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyple. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today
0:16.0	we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. Wild Card Wednesday.
0:20.4	And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech.
0:23.0	Let's dive in.
0:24.0	Welcome to Industry Focus.
0:29.0	Today is Tuesday, April 27th, and I'm the host of this consumer goods focused episode, Emily Flippin.
0:35.0	Today I am joined by Motley Fool analyst, Austin Sharma, as we dive into the elusive world of third-party aggregators, people who go up and buy businesses that sell on
0:46.5	sites like Amazon and Walmart.
0:48.8	Osset, thanks so much for joining.
0:51.1	Emily, thank you for having me and this is a really exciting topic for me. Well, you know, I thought it was going to be an exciting topic because I thought this was about those people who sell me a product with five stars, but when I use it as more like a two or a three
1:05.3	star product on Amazon, that's not what we're talking about today, is it?
1:10.8	This is the weirdest kind of underbelly that I think you've ever exposed me to
1:16.3	Oz it and you've exposed me to many weird underbellys of the consumer goods
1:20.4	industry but this is certainly a weird one. We're going to be talking
1:24.6	about the third party sellers. I think everybody is probably familiar with them if they
1:29.7	haven't purchased directly from them on sites like Amazon or Walmart where small entrepreneurs who have ideas for products or have
1:38.0	connections with somebody in manufacturing come up with an idea and they produce a product to sell on a third-party site as a third-party seller.
1:46.0	Oftentimes this is Amazon because of their fulfillment by Amazon services that do a lot of the legwork for these entrepreneurs and then they really get off the
1:56.0	ground running and at some point they reach a point in their life where they have a choice.
2:02.3	They can either continue to invest a ton of time
2:05.4	in money into scaling up a product that maybe they didn't intend for that to be their full-time
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