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Your Cheapest Employee Just Got Turned Away At The Door

Podcast: AI Breakdown ยท Varun Sirohi

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

๐€ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Œ๐ž๐ญ๐š'๐ฌ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง๐ฅ๐จ๐š๐๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐’, ๐€๐ฆ๐š๐ณ๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐๐จ ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐Ÿ˜ณ The grounds were terms of service. The reason was arithmetic. Amazon looked at software that buys what you asked for and looks at nothing else on the page, and decided that was not a customer so much as a vending machine with a login. This week on ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง: ๐“๐ก๐ž $๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐„๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ž. The fight stopped being about what agents can do and became about who gets paid when they do it. Amazon owns the shelf and sells position on it. Shopify owns the till and announced the opposite bet, official agent checkout through Shop Pay. Inside the episode: ๐Ÿ”ด Amazon made about ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ” billion on advertising last year. Agents walk past every paid slot ๐Ÿ”ด Retail margins near ๐Ÿ‘% against advertising margins near 70. Agents use the thin half ๐Ÿ”ด One executive saved 200 dollars in a day cancelling subscriptions nobody was watching Your move: read your three best sell...