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Congrats, but this article from 2001 has some background:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=20010426&id=G...

If Kozmo had trouble then, with an employee count of 3,300 and with Amazon barely the logistical superpower it is today, what makes the plan more viable today, with Amazon and Google reportedly getting into the game?

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Kozmo was originally funded, at least in part, by Amazon. My first boss when I worked at Amazon was a dev for Kozmo (as I understood it, the while staff and possibly the company had been brought into Amazon).

I don't know if something similar is happening this time around.

Ironically enough, Amazon now owns and operates Webvan.

The audience of likely users is bigger today.

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