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> For example: the biggest "Technology" company recently in Seattle is Amazon, a store first - that leverages technoloy.

Amazon is most definitely a technology (or, at least, a logistics) company with a store, not the other way around.

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This is all about perspective. Now that's definitely the case with AWS and service first design etc. But from the beginning it was trying to be a bookstore, an online one, for sure. But not pure technology, as say a search engine or an operating system - that don't require much integration with existing physical infrastructure.

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