There’s a lot of nuance to starting a business, and here’s a bit of it: what this tweet describes is absolutely not a business. Thread time!
https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1183481030172434435
Amazon has a program where if you've got low-five-figures in cash and a decent credit score, they'll help you "bootstrap your delivery business." Details are at logistics.amazon.com
They'll get you set up with their technology, processes, and delivery fleet all branded with Amazon logos.
Let's stop and think for a second about how that might constrain your ability to uh... take on a second customer that isn't Amazon?
Let's stop and think for a second about how that might constrain your ability to uh... take on a second customer that isn't Amazon?
When you're a business with a single customer, you're not a business; you're an employee without the legal protections.
Which brings us to legal protections!
Which brings us to legal protections!
If you fuck up your labor law compliance, if you have tax issues, if one of your drivers takes a detour through a shopping mall?
It's not Amazon that's liable, it's You Naive Fool LLC that's on the hook.
It's not Amazon that's liable, it's You Naive Fool LLC that's on the hook.
Meanwhile Amazon can crank up delivery requirements, lower what they pay you for contracts, put increasingly onerous requirements on you and your drivers--all while passing the buck / bad press on to you.
If you want to work for Amazon, go work for Amazon.
Just don't pay them $10K and assume their liability for the privilege.
Just don't pay them $10K and assume their liability for the privilege.
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