Do Amazon gonna rule the world. Tech, health,robotics,AI leader

Amazon already competes and wins with Google in the home with smart speakers and in the cloud with Microsoft, but what can it become as a technology-retail-AI company? The answer might surprise you.

Amazon must set its sights on competing not just with Walmart on the ground, but the likes of Apple in terms of brand recognition and with a rising China in innovation.

Amazon had a 42% increase in employees from the year before. A $479 billion company with 382, 400 employees.
Can Amazon Become a Robotics Leader with Softbank?

While many recognize the big moves Amazon makes like acquiring Whole Foods, few know that Amazon is also starting a new autonomous robot program in its worldwide operations group.

Meanwhile, AWS is getting a new hiring spree in San Diego to bolster its growing competition with Microsoft and Google in the cloud.

Amazon getting into robotics doesn't surprise anyone, Amazon acquired Kiva Systems back in 2012 and with Softbank buying robotics companies from Google, here's a vertical that Amazon can become a leader in that lacks a unified Western leader: robotics.

Can Amazon Become a Health-Tech Leader with Apple?

It recently came to light that Amazon has a secret health tech project dedicated to Health-Tech and unifying medical records data systems called 1492. Since Apple is getting interested in this domain, Amazon is not being left behind at all.

In 2017 Amazon is launching services a bit more frequently.

Always a company with a high number of patents, Amazon is noticing a lot of new business areas where their business model favors first-mover entry.

Amazon vs. China

There's a new sense of urgency, with China investing a statewide edict to catch up in AI and innovation.

Amazon is a young 23-year-old as a company with a unique philosophy in life. To combat Chinese companies that are growth-natives, Amazon needs to hit another gear.

Wallstreet wants them to win and vs. China, Silicon Valley needs them to win. All bets on the A-team.

Increasingly the most valuable companies in the world are Tech companies.

Disruption from Tech Companies is the New Normal

While Google and Facebook reap the rewards of a lucrative mobile-advertising era, this distracts them from the race to the future.

The future is not bound on whether or if you are a profitable company today, it's how you can scale in the long-game of the strategic decades ahead in artificial intelligence, fulfillment and transforming legacy industries in the 4th industrial revolution.

Amazon is in the best position to disrupt Grocery, Payments, Voice AI, Medical data and many sub-verticals related to their E-commerce and logistics business.

Now it's looking a lot like they could transform the enterprise cloud and robotics industries as well. They are investing in AWS of course since it's their most viable business.

The Frightful Five

While Tech is becoming a 5 horse race otherwise known as the frightful five, for Amazon it's an A-Z of innovation. AI, Cloud, Hardware, it just doesn't matter.

Amazon ≠ Facebook, Alphabet, Microsoft or Apple

Amazon is what we can call a first-mover native.

AWS revenue grows 42% to $4.10 billion
AWS was first in the cloud and Alexa was first in the home. Amazon was first to the most fulfilling E-commerce marketplace subscription system ever built.

Amazon's super power is to identify and apply its unique business model and strategy to disrupt a vertical.

While the race to be the first trillion dollar company is on, Amazon has the best chance to unify the big four pillars of the exponential technologies of the future:

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
3D-printing
Biotech and Health Data
As the cloud gets more competitive post-2017, Amazon's obsession with the long-game needs to also think about profitability.

Retail, Cloud, Grocery, and Entertainment can be seen just as the foundation of the house Amazon is building.

Next comes layers of Advertising, Robotics, BioTech, and Banking.