Amazon Empire: James Marcus Interview | FRONTLINE
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- James Marcus, former Amazon editor and author of “Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut,” spoke to FRONTLINE about the early ambitions of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos: “The breadth of the ambition was amazing and refreshing, but it also, in a way, seemed comically unrealistic.”
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This excerpt is from an interview conducted for FRONTLINE’s documentary “Amazon Empire,” which examines how founder and CEO Jeff Bezos turned Amazon into a business empire that is unprecedented in the history of American capitalism.
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I worked for a man just like Jeff Bezos people only thought his ideas were nutty people were always trying to reign in him. He turned a very small construction company into a multi billion dollar empire that was on the Forbes 500 list in private industry in the top 5 for 5 years straight. Also with the very humble beginnings'. But he was always remembered that bowl of soup he had for dinner every night as a kid, and he treated his employees fairly offered profit sharing. He was loved and admired in his lifetime and people worked hard for him because he always worked hard for you. There were lines for blocks at his funeral. And in the end that's what matters because no one lives for ever.
This was by far the best interview yet I have seen regarding Jeff and his empire. Don’t fault the guy for wanting to be the best and move our country or the world into a direction of good. Jeff is a pioneer that others have caught onto throughout the years and only soon Amazon will control everything we do from shopping, traveling, technology etc. This man is an inventor and should not be criticized for what he saw when the internet came into the scene. Frontline excellent work once again and a great investigative report on this growing empire that was tastefully done!
yes,sure...in an ideal distopian "sci-fi"- like world...we all have to praise Bezos for his incredibly skills and abilities....also because otherwise the "ministry of truth" will prosecute us.......
Bezos was literally ahead of the curve and his critics are envious of him because of it.
The implementation of computerized identification can never make criminals stop committing crimes. That would be a false hope. People want to help other people, unless they turn to crime and recidivism. The human condition is one of the oldest country songs in the book. When my dad and I worked in advertising together, he would come home singing the blues quite often about the quote he always used, "People would rather tell a lie on credit than to tell the truth for cash." That was back when cash had dominant economic value.
why did Amazon start opening new "fresh" stores when they already own Whole Foods?
He's provided anything, to everybody . . . such motivations can become potentially two-faced, both negative and/or positive . . . all from the eye, of the beholder and user ! Can potentially be 'sinister' !
what’s the interviewers name
Credit...or a straightjacket...where if Bezos in terms of REALITY …???
Illuminati
One word. obsessed.
Bezos brad stone
This guy has a hard time making or sustaining eye contact.... perhaps it be on purpose, so as to be less threatening?? and make eye contact as he closes the question at the end??
Come on people!!
You all act as if you would be any BETTER if you were in Bezos' position, you wouldn't be!! And there is a great chance you would be much much worse. Even this guy being interviewed, he got most of Jeff's vision wrong, and he would be worse than Bezos' in his position... as far as I can tell, and knowing that power corrupts, period... Bezos' is doing a great job of it, handling it.
I do know that ----- that much power and cash in MY hands... whew!! I would be terrible. I was in charge of a team of fifty people, and they loved me, wanted me in charge, but I was aware and CONSTANTLY fighting that motherfucker inside my head telling me to do all sorts of terrible things!!
No, that sort of thing is for visionaries like Bezos who probably knew this sort of thing and power would be in his hands and PREPARED for it way back, like he prepared for everything else it seems, and all things considered, he is doing it just fine...
I only worry for the time when he is no longer in charge of this monster he created. But knowing what we all know about Bezos, he is probably already preparing and taking steps for THAT too. Like Warren Buffett is preparing and doing a transition of power thing as we speak with Berkshire.
You are wrong, a lot of people are successful because they are willing to cross ethical lines other people aren't. We aren't all the same.
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You either intentionally misread what I said, you really think YOU would be better at handling this sort of power and money than everyone else. From what you wrote, I gather you have never BUILT a business and made lots (I mean LOTSSSSS) of money, and thus have lots of influence; so there is no way to know if YOU would be better at it.
I said Bezos is doing ok with it; but to say that I need compare him with other SIMILAR people in history or politics, and I did that, and so I say Bezos is doing a better job of dealing with power and influence than most people, that is ALLLLLL I said... I don't know where you get to say YOUR point about "a lot of people" and your point of "crossing ethical lines" ---- I didn't mention that, but since you have have, I would say we seem in agreement because I said,
"You all act as if you would be any BETTER if you were in Bezos' position, you wouldn't be!! And there is a great chance you would be much much worse."
which is the same thing you said, "a lot of people" ------>> though I did NOT say Bezos has done that, "crossed ethical lines" which you imply in what you said since we were talking about Bezos and no one else. So how am I wrong, as you said??
@@ggrthemostgodless8713 no i read it correctly and you are wrong