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The Most Expensive Promise in Corporate History Picture this: a company loses $5 billion in a single year. It's never turned a consistent profit. And yet, investors just handed it $75 billion in the

A bookstore bleeding $1.4 billion a year, a stock price that had cratered 93%, and a CEO the media treated like a punchline. That was Amazon in 2001. Nobody — not Wall Street, not Walmart, not the