What Amazon Will Be Like in 2030

By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Amazon today is very different from what it was 10 years ago. In 2001, Amazon was still pretty much an online bookstore. Today not only does it sell almost everything under the sun, but it's also a huge cloud computing company, a media seller and it even makes its own gadgets....

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Looks like instead of ebaY becoming Amazon, Amazon is going to become ebaY. Too funny. Who could have seen that coming?  Some disruptive visionary? lmao!!!

Just the ebay/paypal related quotes, emphasis mine:

It will be like eBay but much bigger

Amazon's business allowing third-parties to sell through them is a rip-roaring success and eating into eBay which, itself, is sinking into irrelevance because of poor management execution.

By 2030, expect Amazon to be an enormous eBay-like marketplace, except functioning much better.

Amazon will be the biggest payments company

The only company that has the scale and expertise in payments to take on PayPal's network effects is Amazon. And PayPal isn't very well run, often angers customers, and has an ugly product. Amazon's payments solution already exists and is already better than PayPal's and is growing, albeit slowly as far as we can tell.

Amazon should be able to own that market by 2030.

Companies who could take the cake instead: Facebook or Square.