Amazon is building product data – sucking in tons of manufacturer data and building their own.

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Part 1: Amazon Threat Level: Today and Tomorrow
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What B2B Customers Want
Finding Great Resources

Full transcript:

The second part is that Amazon is building product data. They are building CAD drawings for their products. For industrial-related B2B products. Electrical is just behind that. They are sucking in more and more data from their manufacturers. I think that’s a significant threat. Because they see product content as an asset to their business.