The a16z Show · Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Why Amazon Is Investing $220 Billion in AI
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doubled the size of Amazon's fulfillment network in about 18 months and built a last-mile transportation network the size of UPS in about 20 months
18 months, 20 months
“It used to take maybe for it, let's talk about an average size business, an average size omni-channel retailer. It might take, I don't know, like six months to onboard a CDP. We're now doing it in six to 12 weeks.”
“We're planning on making about 20,000 of those for 2027. So you'll see a pretty large step up in the fleet size across a lot of new territories.”
“We haven't done it once... companies have been under-invested in... they need cash for systems and people to double and triple the size.”
“We built the team, imagined stores… 18 months later we opened our first store.”
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