Amazon at 30: How one company changed the world
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It’s thirty years since Amazon launched. What began as a website selling books has become an online juggernaut - where you can buy just about everything. So how did it become one of the most powerful companies in the world? And has it changed our lives for the better - or worse?
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Guest: Dana Mattioli, author of "The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power" and Amazon reporter, The Wall Street Journal.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:57.2 | destinations. Fair use policies and terms apply. From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Manveen Rana. I'm Jeff Bezos. Hey there, who are you? |
| 1:13.0 | I'm Jeff Bezos. |
| 1:14.0 | And what is your claim to fame? |
| 1:16.0 | I'm the founder of Amazon.com. |
| 1:19.0 | It's 30 years since Jeff Bezos launched the website that changed the way we live. |
| 1:30.0 | We've demonstrated that internet retailing and online commerce works. We're living proof. |
| 1:38.0 | Amazon.com of Seattle is one of the hot sites on the internet. |
| 1:42.0 | Its revenues are growing 20 to 30 percent a month. The |
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