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Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world

By Daisuke Wakabayashi
New York Times·
15 mins to read
Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world
Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world

Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: 'strip-mining' them of their innovations.

Elastic, a software startup in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business and had grown to 100 employees. Then Amazon came along.

In October 2015, Amazon's cloud computing arm announced it was copying Elastic's

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