All posts tagged: e-commerce

They’re the ones who pay when Amazon backs down

May 2, 2025
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on May 2nd, 2025. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Amazon beat market expectations, but the only word anyone wanted to talk about was “tariffs.” E-commerce has become high politics — and millions of small businesses are now being squeezed between Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump. Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos may have thought he would […]

He beat Silicon Valley with improbable timing

August 3, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

Mercado Libre: From garage project to $70 billion Published in Svenska Dagbladet, 2024-08-03. Translated from Swedish. From a garage to becoming Latin America’s most important tech company. The Mercado Libre success story sounds like a cliché — but with near-perfect timing, Marcos Galperin has built a company that Silicon Valley cannot touch. “He is now morbidly obese, a drug addict, has cancer, AIDS and is an alcoholic.” That is how Marcos Galperin describes Argentina’s economy […]

Beat Amazon — with unexpected methods

July 28, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

How Flipkart won the battle against Amazon in India Published in Svenska Dagbladet, 2024-07-28. Translated from Swedish. They have been called India’s Amazon — but the road there was long and complicated. From nothing, Sachin and Binny Bansal built the e-commerce giant Flipkart in a country of nearly 1.5 billion people, most of whom had no internet access. Entrepreneurial stories of founders who spotted an opportunity to do better than the competition are plentiful. Rarer […]