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Amazon GMV Revealed?

Ina Steiner
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In an apparent fit of braggadocio, a former executive seems to have revealed Amazon GMV, reporter Shira Ovide noted.

She pointed to a CNBC article about Dave Stephenson’s move from Amazon to Airbnb in which it wrote: “In a blog post, Airbnb said that in his most recent role at Amazon, Stephenson “oversaw gross merchandise sales in excess of $250 billion and helped the business achieve double digit revenue and operating profit growth over the past four years.””
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The Airbnb blog post no longer mentions the $250 billion GMV referenced in the CNBC article, so we asked Amazon PR, which has not responded to our inquiry.

Amazon reported net sales of $177.9 billion in 2017, and net income of $3 billion.

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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.

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2 thoughts on “Amazon GMV Revealed?”

  1. Big mouth Ex’s always spill the beans. But people with brains doubt them for the truth. Usually its more a payback move.

  2. whenever an executive go’s somewhere else, they always inflate what they did in the past.

    sooner or later they get caught in the lies and then go somewhere else.

    that’s why poor executives are job hoppers.

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