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The e-commerce powerhouse Amazon has spawned a wide range of startups, with its former employees working on everything from cute robots to recruiting software.
If you want proof that Amazon recruits some seriously talented people, just look at what they're doing now.
Flipkart actually competes head-to-head with Amazon in India.
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Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal both worked at Amazon before ditching in 2007 to start their own new company with a very similar business model.
The startup took off and Flipkart is now India's largest online marketplace in terms of sales.
Amazon, meanwhile, didn't enter India until 2012 with the price-comparison site Junglee (which it had acquired way back in the late 90s). It opened its official India website in June 2013. A year later, Flipkart raised a mammoth $1 billion funding round. Exactly one day later, Amazon said it was planning to pour $2 billion into its Indian operations. Flipkart currently employees 33,000 people and attracts more than 10 million daily visits.
Hointer founder Nadia Shouraboura brings the principles she learned at Amazon to brick-and-mortar retail.
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Nadia Shouraboura worked at Amazon for 8 years, during which she scaled all the way up the corporate ladder into CEO Jeff Bezos’ elite “S-Team” of direct reports.
She eventually left in 2012 to launch Hointer, a futuristic retail store that wants to make the shopping experience as convenient as possible by integrating in-store apps and automating the process as much as possible. In its Seattle store, Hointer whisks clothing in and out of dressing rooms with robots.
Matt Williams founded Pro.com to make every home improvement project a breeze.
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Former Digg CEO, Andreessen Horowitz entrepreneur in residence, and long-time Amazon employee Matt Williams put together an ex-Amazon dream-team to take the pain out of home projects.
Pro.com gives people looking to tackle a home improvement project a price estimate for both materials and labor and then recommends professionals to get the job done.
During his 12 years at Amazon, Williams did a stint as Jeff Bezos' shadow, an incredibly elite position. Williams has raised upwards of $17 million for Pro and a bunch of his coworkers are ex-Amazoners as well.
After working at Amazon but before starting Pro, Williams served as Digg's CEO and an Andreessen Horowitz entrepreneur in residence.
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