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Jet is on pace to do $1B in sales this year (not profit, but gross merchandise value). Not bad for a company only selling stuff for 16 months. They aren't a direct competitor to Amazon in model, they are closer to a seamless version of Flipkart in india. My friend who works there says they see Target as their competition more so than Amazon, and that could be what Walmart sees too. I do wish we could have seen where this company could go, but likelihood is it became increasingly difficult to attract VC money in this market that is tightening.



I mean, it is not really hard to make $1B in sales if you have >$500M to burn ;)


Tell that to Lyft/WeWork, and a number of others ;-)




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