Amazon reportedly invested in startups and gained proprietary information before launching competitors, often crushing the smaller companies in the process (AMZN)

11:20am PDT - July 23rd, 2020    amzn - Business Insider

  • Amazon has been meeting with and investing in startups, only to later make products that directly compete with them, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. 
  • The Journal spoke with startups who said Amazon made similar hardwa…