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Describing Marc Lore as "Former Walmart executive" is true but selling him short. He founded diapers.com (sold to Amazon), and later Jet (sold to Walmart).

I am curious to see how this experiment unfolds.

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Being known as the guy who got steamrolled by Bezos might not inspire a positive reaction in potential investors. Then again, he's got a history of success, he just got tangled up with one of the biggest and most aggressive egos on the planet. Diapers.com was a crazy scenario - corporate fuckery at its worst.

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