Amazon lost money for its first 14 years, so it’s not like this is a normal business. If your local corner shop lost money for 14 years you wouldn’t expect it to then turn into the biggest shop in town.
Well, quite. Your local corner shop isn't going to do this;
At the time, anyone running a 'shop' was wasting too much time running a shop when they should have been a technology company predicting and making the future.
Amazon lost money for its first 14 years, so it’s not like this is a normal business. If your local corner shop lost money for 14 years you wouldn’t expect it to then turn into the biggest shop in town.