What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.
Gloria VanceAmazon's free cash flow was negative forty-two point four billion dollars last quarter, six times the seven point six billion dollar deficit the quarter before.
Gloria VanceLeopold Achterberg is an inmate at a minimum-security prison, and he joins us. Mr. Achterberg, is that a normal curve?
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Leopold Tamsin AchterbergYes. I've seen that curve, strictly in theory, on a commissary tab.
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Leopold Tamsin AchterbergYou start small, you buy a few stamps, and then one week it's forty-two billion and there's a man named Dutch asking where it went.
Gloria VanceAmazon spent more than seventy-seven billion dollars on equipment and property in the quarter, well above what analysts expected. What do you make of that?
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Leopold Tamsin AchterbergStrictly in theory, you buy equipment when you think the equipment will pay for itself.
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Leopold Tamsin AchterbergI once bought equipment, a forklift and then a second forklift, and the first one was not even in my name.
Gloria VanceThe money has a purpose.
Gloria VanceCloud revenue rose thirty-nine percent to forty-six billion dollars, while online sales grew two percent, the slowest since early twenty twenty-three.
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Leopold Tamsin AchterbergSo the cloud is the star pupil, and the store is the kid still drawing on the desk. And they still expect about two hundred twenty billion dollars in spending this year.
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Leopold Tamsin AchterbergNobody's taken away their golf pencil.
Gloria VanceYour pencil is noted. But you didn't answer the question about your own deficit.
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Leopold Tamsin AchterbergStrictly in theory, mine was a little different. Forty-one other people's money, one ledger, and a very honest pencil.
Gloria VanceMr. Achterberg, I assume Amazon's deficit has a credit line behind it. Yours is a pack of crackers.
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Leopold Tamsin AchterbergStrictly in theory, they were the good crackers.
