This week's show is a special presentation of GeekWire's newest podcast, Day 2, about everything Amazon, analyzing the company's record quarterly results and looking ahead to what's next. To hear more episodes, subscribe to Day 2 in any podcast app.

Year-over-year quarterly growth of 44% would be significant for any company, but when the numbers were already this big, it starts to qualify as astonishing.

Amazon's sales of $108.5 billion in the first quarter compared with $75.5 billion a year earlier, setting a new record for the Seattle-based e-commerce giant and providing a glimpse of its strong position as the world emerges from the pandemic. Amazon is easing its spending on COVID-19 initiatives, but consumers' online purchasing habits appear to have permanently changed.

The result: its profits more than tripled, to $8.1 billion, from $2.5 billion a year earlier.

The impact of that structural shift on Amazon's bottom line is the big takeaway from its first-quarter results, released Thursday afternoon.

We break down the quarter on this episode of Day 2, GeekWire's podcast about everything Amazon, with GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook, and former third-party seller Jason Boyce, co-author of "The Amazon Jungle" and founder and CEO of e-commerce agency Avenue7Media. 

This week's show is a special presentation of GeekWire's newest podcast, Day 2, about everything Amazon, analyzing the company's record quarterly results and looking ahead to what's next. To hear more episodes, <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/day2/">subscribe to Day 2</a>&nbsp;in any podcast app.
Year-over-year quarterly growth of 44% would be significant for any company, but when the numbers were already this big, it starts to qualify as astonishing.
Amazon's sales of $108.5 billion in the first quarter compared with $75.5 billion a year earlier, setting a new record for the Seattle-based e-commerce giant and providing a glimpse of its strong position as the world emerges from the pandemic. Amazon is easing its spending on COVID-19 initiatives, but consumers' online purchasing habits appear to have permanently changed.
The result: its profits more than tripled, to $8.1 billion, from $2.5 billion a year earlier.
The impact of that structural shift on Amazon's bottom line is <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2021/amazon-crushes-earnings-estimates-108-5-billion-q1-revenue-44-profits-8-1-billion/">the big takeaway from its first-quarter results</a>, <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210429006037/en/Amazon.com-Announces-First-Quarter-Results">released Thursday afternoon</a>.
We break down the quarter on this episode of <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/day2/">Day 2</a>, GeekWire's podcast about everything Amazon, with GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook, and former third-party seller Jason Boyce, co-author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Jungle-Survival-Commerce-Marketplace-ebook/dp/B08K3PQGJ8">"The Amazon Jungle"</a> and founder and CEO of e-commerce agency <a href="https://avenue7media.com/">Avenue7Media</a>.&nbsp;

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