Bezos Steps Down as Amazon’s CEO and Raising the Minimum Wage

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TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What are Jeff Bezos’s most significant accomplishments at Amazon? What’s troubling about the business that he built? Rebecca , Rawi , and Felix look back at Jeff Bezos’s career.

They also discuss the proposal to increase the federal minimum wage in the U.S. to $15. Would we really see more unemployment?

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“All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis” (Ayana Elizabeth Johnson)
“The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” (Brad Stone)
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0:57.2	I'm Felix.
0:58.2	I'm Rowie.
0:59.2	I'm Rebecca.
1:00.2	Hey guys.
1:01.2	So we have an interesting show ahead of us and we'll talk about work quite a bit.
1:05.2	We heard about Jeff Bezos giving up his job as CEO of Amazon and taking on the role
1:12.4	as executive chair of the board.
1:14.6	I would love to talk about Bezos, Amazon, how you think about his career, how you think
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