"Instead of using a motor vehicle, I will deliver all packages by hand"
I mean, yea, in places it would succeed as a boutique business, but you're not building the next Amazon that way either.
I mean, yea, in places it would succeed as a boutique business, but you're not building the next Amazon that way either.
People can actually get a lot of work done in an hour to the point where many things that don’t seem like they should scale end up being trivial expenses.
Given how much Amazon invests in automation that's a pretty gross mischaracterization of what they do.
What’s eye opening is the kiva robots only increase the items picked per worker per hour from ~100 to ~300 even though they drastically reduce the amount of walking.
PS: “300% increased worker productivity” a 300% increased productivity for pickers would be 4x as many packages picked not 3x. But, again actual productivity didn’t increase that much because some people need to maintain these systems and most of them expect more than 15$/hour.
I want a business that feeds my wife and me, with maybe a little extra. I don't need to be rich.
It's just not a scalable plan. It reminds me of a middle schooler whose plan for their future involves getting famous or winning the lottery.
Yes, I will be competing with every human. But my market will be "every" human, and I don't need to capture all of that market; I only need to capture enough.