I don't know how to ask this and not sound ironic...I hope it doesn't.
Do you believe they would ignore a good startup and not invest in it even if they didn't win a prize?
Do you believe they would ignore a good startup and not invest in it even if they didn't win a prize?
FWIW, my guess is that they'd err on the side of ignoring good startups. Amazon has not so far been in the investment business, and I don't think that is their goal here. Their goal is to promote AWS to startups. They're raising the prospect of investment because they know that's something many startups are interested in.
Whether or not it's a good startup is another question.