Amazon's Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Jamil Ghani is Amazon’s Vice President of Prime. Ghani joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Amazon's position in the ongoing trade war and how Alexa Plus combined with Prime will appeal to its customers. Tune in to hear Ghani debunk the headline about tariff price labels, walk through Alexa Plus’s rollout, and outline why Amazon believes its approach to a contextually-aware assistant will work. We also cover Prime Day strategy, supply-chain regionalization, warehouse robotics, and Amazon’s growing AI alliance with Anthropic. Hit play for a fast, candid look at how the world’s largest online retailer is positioning itself for the next era of commerce and consumer tech. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	What is Amazon seeing in the early days of the trade war?
0:03.2	And how will Alexa Plus change shopping and perhaps much more?
0:06.9	That's coming up with the head of Amazon Prime in a very busy week in Amazon land right after this.
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0:57.1	Welcome to big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world
1:01.9	and beyond. We're joined today by Jamil Ghani. He's the VP of Amazon Prime in an exceptionally
1:07.7	busy week in Amazon land where the company seems like it's at the center of the
1:12.5	news cycle in the trade war. We're going to touch on that, but we're really going to have a
1:16.3	conversation about the future of shopping in AI bots and whether Alexa Plus will live out
1:23.9	that vision and maybe compete with chat cheap ETT one day. So it's going to be a fascinating
1:28.0	conversation and I'm so glad to welcome you to the show. Welcome, Jamil. Great to see you.
1:32.3	Great, great to see you. Thank you so much for having me. Yes, definitely. Great to have you here.
1:36.4	We're going to talk all about what's going on with Amazon, uh, with Alexa Plus and Amazon Prime. But of course, I would be remiss to start this interview without a mention of what's going on.
1:47.1	In the news, we're recording on Tuesday, April 29th for a publication date of Wednesday, April 30th.
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