Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products
"An Amazon spokesman said the company doesn’t use confidential information that companies share with it to build competing products"<p>Maybe...but in the past, AWS proactively looked at traction of products hosted on its platform, built competing products, and then scraped & targeted customer list of those hosted products. In fact, I was on a team in AWS that did exactly that. Why wouldn't their investing arm do the same?