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Here is my Jeff Bezos profile:
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) October 10, 2019
Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $108 billion.
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The @newyorker and @TheAtlantic are out with giant Amazon/Bezos longreads within a few minutes of one another, by @cduhigg and @FranklinFoer.
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) October 10, 2019
Roughly 13,000 and 11,000 words, respectively.https://t.co/M5O53BWW8Khttps://t.co/JH4GpBvNyM pic.twitter.com/yva2513mbL
I spent five months on this cover story about Jeff Bezos, his master plan for humanity, and the problem of his power. It's about how one man is able to impose his values on the rest of us https://t.co/gSVYxL6G4X
— Franklin Foer (@FranklinFoer) October 10, 2019
Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.https://t.co/bMutmXIKtv
— Cyrus Farivar (@cfarivar) October 10, 2019
"Amazon isn’t a mall, a current executive told me. He described it as a Web site that offers unlimited shelf space for an almost unlimited number of products and sellers. Some might call this a platform." https://t.co/faGxwYp4hS
— Anna Wiener (@annawiener) October 10, 2019
I don’t know what to make of discussions of Amazon’s scale that don’t mention it has about 6% of US retail sales - roughly the same as Walmart. It’s growing at 30%, yes, but one does need to explain what kind of scale that scale is. https://t.co/HPYV8ptu6E
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) October 11, 2019
On what helped make Amazon formidable: “Amazon’s culture is designed to prevent bureaucracies. Everything Jeff [Bezos] does is to stop a big-company mentality from taking hold, so that Amazon can continue behaving like a group of startups.” https://t.co/sd8Fngbj1O
— Vicente C. de Baca (@vcdb) October 10, 2019
How Jeff Bezos is fighting regulators - and what it's like inside his warehouses where "They don’t care at all.”https://t.co/EiwwUIWm1U
— Charles Duhigg (@cduhigg) October 10, 2019
Masterclass of reporting, explanatory writing, and storytelling by @cduhigg. "Like other process companies, Amazon is learning that a flywheel, once spinning, is very hard to stop." https://t.co/Xeh8RFuyYW
— Michael Luo (@michaelluo) October 11, 2019
Great piece. Ironic that at the end there’s a link to the author’s Pulitzer-prize winning book for sale on...Amazon of course. https://t.co/3YyEnypFr0
— David Coggins (@Davidrcoggins) October 10, 2019
This New Yorker piece, which mentions our and @propublica's reporting on Amazon's delivery network, also quotes a former Amazon exec who says he tried to warn the company that contracting with outside firms for delivery was a dangerous idea: https://t.co/y3YbJHv1bb pic.twitter.com/RcgBEeq1Wu
— Caroline O'Donovan (@ceodonovan) October 10, 2019
We strongly believe in the rights of immigrants but also pitch our surveillance tech to ICE https://t.co/cI81hH5uK3 pic.twitter.com/HAdOsmNMok
— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) October 10, 2019
One close Bezos acquaintance told me: 12/19 pic.twitter.com/FqLNQvR3LJ
— Charles Duhigg (@cduhigg) October 10, 2019
The only competition Amazon faces is with the pieces written about it. No fair! https://t.co/u0Hb5zxGqa
— Franklin Foer (@FranklinFoer) October 10, 2019
Our Postions - where does @Amazon stand on a number of society's most pressing issues. https://t.co/U63bzb9w3m
— Werner Vogels (@Werner) October 11, 2019
Within Amazon, the news that Bezos had been unfaithful to – and was divorcing – his wife was a major blow: 9/19 pic.twitter.com/XzbcmVrhfE
— Charles Duhigg (@cduhigg) October 10, 2019
Enlightening story by @cduhigg about whose shoes you're buying on Amazon--and what happens when one company gains massive amounts of market power. https://t.co/nhyrNgQ0OX
— Vera Titunik (@vtitunik) October 10, 2019
An unnamed Amazon exec says this remarkable line, in @cduhigg’s piece: “But ultimately this is a problem only the government can solve—by changing how the economy works.” Yes, exactly! It’s why we need to break up monopolies & regulate tech platforms. https://t.co/6k8LIduXJx
— Stacy Mitchell (@stacyfmitchell) October 10, 2019
Amazon’s obsession with expansion has made it the corporate equivalent of a colonizer, ruthlessly invading new industries and subjugating some smaller companies. And Jeff Bezos is ready to fight any efforts to constrain him. @cduhigg reports. https://t.co/kjDXQlmDAM
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 10, 2019
It’s easy to throw big numbers around. And yes, Amazon is a huge and aggressive company. But US retail is over $5 trillion a year, and you need to include that number if you’re going to say that this is big. you have to use percentages.
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) October 11, 2019
"Many admired Bezos’s dedication to his wife and children, and saw it as an embodiment of the company’s integrity. Still, they whispered, what if his flywheel has gone off track?"
— Ginny Hogan (@ginnyhogan_) October 11, 2019
my fave argument - he is nice to his KIDS how can he be BAD???https://t.co/oSYAYGX8Ej
"Rockefeller largely contented himself with oil wells, pump stations, and railcars; Gates’s fortune depended on an operating system. The scope of the empire [Bezos] has built is wider...without precedent in...American capitalism." @FranklinFoer goes big: https://t.co/jRWbYui8KH
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) October 10, 2019
How Jeff Bezos transformed himself from a “pudgy bookseller” into a “sleek, muscled mogul” and one of the most powerful people on the planet @cduhigg https://t.co/Xaax7ZAFYh
— Sheelah Kolhatkar (@sheelahk) October 10, 2019
It's important to read corporate manifestos carefully. Amazon has staked out some important positions here, but also toes the line on several of them.https://t.co/yUi88eBxDi
— Greg Bensinger (@GregBensinger) October 10, 2019
Even Bezos’s friends were concerned: 10/19 pic.twitter.com/IzfkaYmkup
— Charles Duhigg (@cduhigg) October 10, 2019
You know where there doesn't seem to be a lack of competition? Magazines investigating Bezos. https://t.co/JLnJKCknv4
— Charles Duhigg (@cduhigg) October 10, 2019
".. the thing is, most of us aren’t just consumers. We’re also producers, or manufacturers, or employees or we live in cities where retailers have gone out of business because they can’t compete with Amazon, and so $AMZN kind of pits us against ourselves”https://t.co/w1CBLo1iOe
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) October 10, 2019
Dark, fascinating piece about the winners and losers of Amazon's flywheel culture, by @cduhigg, who has worn out some shoe leather reporting this one. https://t.co/QIMGMoqTUo
— Ed Caesar (@edcaesar) October 10, 2019
This is some horrifying 1,000 year Reich shit. I have no doubt Bezos would liquidate half of humanity if it meant keeping his power and his ability to live out his childhood fantasies. https://t.co/sEUuNcx3rO
— executive cheddar (@Bodyisturd) October 10, 2019
Is Amazon Unstoppable? | The New Yorker. NO! Amazon is killing itself. I used to keep a browser tab open to Amazon always but cust. serv. went from great to terrible. I buy as little as possible at Amazon. This am their delivery punk rang at 5 am. & woke https://t.co/S6EFeXbPO2
— Stephen (@step7777) October 10, 2019
"If Marxist revolutionaries ever seized power in the United States, they could nationalize Amazon and call it a day." https://t.co/YMhENjESiW
— Saahil Desai (@Saahil_Desai) October 10, 2019
There is a ton of great stuff in this article, but the Amazon warehouse manager lying about how his dad died to get his employees not to unionize made me shake my head so fucking hardhttps://t.co/PiEhYA5QUf
— LC (@DJIntrovert) October 10, 2019
Not a ton of new news in here, but a great overview of the state of Amazon, Bezos, and the last few years. https://t.co/DjoUZkwK0O
— Matt Rosoff (@MattRosoff) October 10, 2019
Amazon’s growth may be impossible to stop, argues this terrifying New Yorker profile https://t.co/NAUjuS2Beb pic.twitter.com/Y49F4k32ca
— The Verge (@verge) October 10, 2019
Report: Amazon thought using third-party delivery drivers was dangerous, but did it anyway https://t.co/3sUyqscdKb https://t.co/GA5oXyiqcm pic.twitter.com/jF1WJSQEaf
— Manfred Rosenberg (@4PawShop) October 10, 2019
Amazon policy manifesto responds to environmental, workplace and data-privacy critics https://t.co/aDYzshCSel
— Jay Greene (@greene) October 11, 2019
Must read
— jacopo iacoboni (@jacopo_iacoboni) October 10, 2019
https://t.co/l0cL6b3CjY
"Rockefeller largely contented himself with oil wells, pump stations, and railcars; Gates’s fortune depended on an operating system. The scope of the empire [Bezos] has built is wider...without precedent in...American capitalism." @FranklinFoer goes big: https://t.co/jRWbYui8KH
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) October 10, 2019
I spent five months on this cover story about Jeff Bezos, his master plan for humanity, and the problem of his power. It's about how one man is able to impose his values on the rest of us https://t.co/gSVYxL6G4X
— Franklin Foer (@FranklinFoer) October 10, 2019
Jeff Bezos (and Amazon) has "won capitalism." What comes next? ? - @FranklinFoer https://t.co/BeF582RqJR
— The Compound (@TheCompoundNews) October 11, 2019
Here's a gem.
— Jeff Vandrew Jr (@vandrewattycpa) October 10, 2019
Walmart doesn't use Amazon Web Services for its data storage out of concern for Amazon viewing its company secrets. Totally reasonable.
But the CIA thinks it's totally fine.
CIA data doesn't reach Walmart-level importance apparently.https://t.co/kXA3PHg6CV
The punch of @FranklinFoer’s piece on Bezos comes at the end: “The country needs to consider the longer sweep of history before permitting so much responsibility to pool in one man, who w/o ever receiving a vote, assumes roles once reserved for the state.”https://t.co/Tm42izPQ5D
— Stacy Mitchell (@stacyfmitchell) October 10, 2019
Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan - The Atlantic https://t.co/gXx9taQ8Rf
— ༄༄Ꭿ???༄༄ (@_ItsJustAsia_) October 10, 2019
Jeff Bezos wants us all to live in giant cylindrical tubes between earth and the moon. https://t.co/MWFBp2hhbY
— Denise Kersten Wills (@denisewills) October 10, 2019
Jeff Bezos’s master plan: @franklinfoer on what the @Amazon founder wants, and what that means for the rest of us. https://t.co/vOxSnShb3D
— Doug Bloch (@TeamsterDoug) October 11, 2019
@adamscrabble You are so spot on! https://t.co/TymibeMxtq
— Patris (@Patssai) October 11, 2019
Jeff Bezos’s master plan: @franklinfoer on what the Amazon founder wants, and what that means for the rest of us. https://t.co/b1iNHJmb3C
— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) October 10, 2019
Post all #Devcon cuddles (?), exchanging All The Passion and absorbing Some Tech, the 2 linked longreads are a ?#realitycheck - just 1 illustration of the deeply centralized, extractive powers ruling us. Ignore the drama/noise, Connect, Focus and Build.?https://t.co/8arpNXih7m pic.twitter.com/RZ8NlDUZvy
— Kris Is ?? (@krrisis) October 12, 2019
Bezos controls nearly 40 percent of all e-commerce in the United States https://t.co/WAYtTDx5A2 via @nuzzel thanks @jyarow
— hussein kanji (@hkanji) October 11, 2019
Another Bezos retrospective in this week’s Atlantic. Interesting on his space ambitions: In his valedictorian speech at his high school graduation he talked about his intention “to get all people off the Earth and see it turned into a huge national park.” https://t.co/5G2FI5J8PA
— cristina berta jones (@cristinagberta) October 12, 2019
Jeff’s thousand year reich.https://t.co/DzSaADb8XH
— Bezostown (@bezostown) October 12, 2019
Great Saturday read: Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan. A fascinating and enigmatic empire builder https://t.co/1ndqYljVmS
— Hannes Sjob (@hsjob) October 12, 2019
There’s much that terrifies in @FranklinFoer piece, but this esp.: With HQ2 “thousands of Amazon implants will be absorbed by Washington. Executives will send their kids to the same...schools as journalists, think-tank fellows, &...government officials.” https://t.co/Tm42izPQ5D
— Stacy Mitchell (@stacyfmitchell) October 10, 2019
If you read @FranklinFoer's work, and he has been on Amazon since 2014, you realize that big tech companies are now serious political threats to all commerce. That wasn't so for Microsoft in 1998. It was big, but software wasn't everything. https://t.co/UZtmjOebxh
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) October 11, 2019
Jeff Bezos’s master plan: @franklinfoer on what the Amazon founder wants, and what that means for the rest of us. https://t.co/1GVs7ReahS This is sooo good! Get a cup of coffee and devour it!
— Temie Giwa-Tubosun (@temite) October 11, 2019
“The reason he’s earning so much money is to get to outer space.” -Old girlfriend of Bezos
— Doon ???? (@Doonvorcannon) October 12, 2019
Interesting read. I, unlike many on our side of things, respect the drive and mind of Bezos (Musk too). These are people who refuse stagnation.
Sclerosis is sin!https://t.co/wTZjbFTU5C
To Bezos the planet’s growing energy demands will outstrip its limited supply.
— Interesting Threads. (@GRITCULT) October 12, 2019
The danger,“is not necessarily extinction,” but stasis: “We will have to stop growing, which I think is a very bad future.”
“We have to go to space to save Earth.”https://t.co/vF1SMdY4se