Amazon’s second employee bids to split company: Report

A founding Amazon employee who was a part of the original team in 1994 has called to split Jeff Bezos’s e-commerce empire into two.

According to a report on Business Insider via Recode, Paul Davis, a former programmer at the company, said that the company’s core retail business should be separated from its marketplace business for about 2.5 million third-party sellers.

Davis further said that the company has total access to seller and product data on its platform and can use it to shape its own labels. The company denied this charge after its business model came under scrutiny in both the US and the EU, according to the report.