Amazon Can’t Be Contained
40% of everything sold online in the United States is through Amazon. Its web services division owns almost a third of the worldwide cloud infrastructure.
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Show Notes
40% of everything sold online in the United States is through Amazon. Its web services division owns almost a third of the worldwide cloud infrastructure.
Amazon is a goliath.
Dana Mattioli is an investigative journalist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.” Mary Long caught up with Mattioli for a conversation about:
- Amazon’s early days and how it withstood years of sustained losses.
- How Amazon makes Wall Street look genteel.
- The lengths that the company went to get information from competitors.
Companies discussed: AMZN, TGT, EBAY
Host: Mary Long
Guest: Dana Mattioli
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Dez Jones, Austin Morgan
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