Employees, Not Investors, Will Slow Amazon Down

Amazon is like a sports car with an accelerator that is frequently pressed all the way forward, mostly because its driver-CEO believes the road ahead is clear, and there’s a lucrative race to be won. Investor pessimism doesn’t seem to dampen Bezos’s appetite for risk.Employees unsettled by Amazon’s steadily depreciating stock price are probably the only thing that can force Bezos to slow down.