Zappos' Alfred Lin on synergies with Amazon

'Amazon bought Zappos partly because there was little overlap in customers,' said LinIt was in November that Amazon closed its $1.2 billion (at Amazon's current stock price) acquisition of mega shoe e-tailer Zappos. The three months may seem like ages ago, but the two companies are still in the early stages of integrating and learning from one another. In this second part of my four-part interview with Alfred Lin, COO and CFO of Zappos and an entrepreneur known for being skillful at selling companies, Alfred talks about why Amazon bought the shoe e-tailer. Surprisingly, Amazon had little customer overlap with Zappos, said Alfred, making the acquisition a good fit. Alfred doesn't get into too many details about how Amazon is helping the shoe e-tailer go beyond footwear, but he said that Zappos ... [http://vator.tv/n/e60 read more]

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Furthermore lets start seeing a review of the impact of these new technologies that is being created at the Valley- are they making an impact on people's behaviour or lives or not!