# Paul Graham on Tech: “Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen sin…”

> Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon comp… — 12.9K likes, 676 reposts on X.

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- **Updated:** 2026-10-13
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- **Author:** @paulg
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- **Rank today:** #6 of 14
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08 01:47 UTC

Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the main use cases. And they won't want to use some Amazon-supplied agent to do it.

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