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Amazon is known for watching what retail products gain traction on its platform and elsewhere and then creating similar products it can sell for less. Dan digs in with Joey Zwillinger, co-founder and CEO of Allbirds, who slams Amazon's knockoff of his company's wool sneakers as being "algorithmically inspired."

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Podcast: Allbirds CEO on Amazon's copycat strategy

Allbirds chief executive Joey Zwillinger on how Amazon copied his company's footwear.

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