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"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?