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Foundering

Amazon Part 3: The Bumpy Road to Hollywood

Foundering

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Business, Tech News, Technology, News

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Amazon Story

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0:00.0

On October 24th, join top technology leaders, business executives, innovators and entrepreneurs

0:05.8

in London for the Bloomberg Technology Summit.

0:08.5

How can unprecedented digitisation help solve global challenges?

0:13.5

Speakers from GraphCore's Siemens, Deliveroo and Aber Voyage will explore the rapid advance

0:18.9

of AI and green technology and delve into the escalation of cyber warfare and more.

0:24.3

Learn more at www.bloomberglive.com slash tech summit 2023.

0:30.0

Even among other CEOs, Jeff Bezos has known for being an especially aggressive businessman.

0:35.8

He's really good at playing the game of capitalism, where the imperative for any company is to grow and keep growing.

0:43.2

So Bezos wants to have a hand in almost every aspect of his customer's daily lives.

0:48.3

And when he hits a wall, he's known for buying his way in.

0:52.1

When Amazon struggled to sell shoes, they bought Zappos for about a billion dollars.

0:57.4

When they were flailing around with their grocery delivery business, they bought whole foods.

1:01.9

And then in May 2021, Jeff Bezos did it again.

1:06.2

Amazon today just did some shopping of its own, buying MGM for nearly eight and a half billion dollars.

1:12.9

But this is coming as Amazon continues its push to try and figure out Hollywood,

1:16.9

try and figure out how to make this work with streaming that kind of been all over the map.

1:21.2

This is so fascinating. You have this company that's really the epitome of the modern company,

1:25.7

buying a film studio that was founded in the silent era.

1:30.0

Amazon said it was buying one of the most storied names in Hollywood.

1:33.9

MGM is home to movies like Rocky and Robocop, Fargo and the Survivor TV series.

1:40.4

And of course, Bond, James Bond.

1:46.5

Mr. Bond, I suppose you would.

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