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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (86797)	12/9/1999 12:30:00 PM
From: Eric Wells	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164685

I'm really surprised Eric and Kissy are laughing at that secret sauce comment... Lizzie - I'm laughing at the "secret sauce" comment, because it sounds so fluffy and mysterious - as though who ever coined the term meant to say that Amazon just has that "magic something" to make it successful. Generally, a well-grounded analyst comment will be something along the lines of: 1. "They hire very talented people." 2. "They've proven themselves as being very competitive." 3. "They have superior products." 4. "They have unchallenged competitive advantage." 5. "They proven themselves time and again by continually showing revenue and profit growth" 6. "They have patented superior technology which will ensure profitability into the future." etc., etc., etc. But to say a company has the "secret sauce", applied to any company other than McDonald's, I would say it sounds a tad bit too "new-eraish" for my tastes. And then you have to ask what success the "secret sauce" has provided to Amazon - a perfect track record of reporting increasing losses every quarter? Pass some of that "secret sauce" over my way - and while you're at it, pass the magic dust, the magic wand and those clicking magic slippers too - I find my vision is getting clouded by reality. -Eric