Examining Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s Global Empire

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

For more than 10 years, Bloomberg’s Senior Executive Editor Brad Stone has covered Amazon, the company and its founder Jeff Bezos. Stone’s new book "Amazon Unbound", examines how Bezos’ creation has become one of the largest corporations on the planet. But what is the cost to workers, the environment and to Bezos himself? We’ll talk about Amazon, Bezos and how the pandemic helped solidify the fortune of the richest man in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	I'm Lily Jamali.
0:49.9	How did Jeff Bezos turn Amazon into one of the largest corporations in the world?
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0:59.0	I still have all the memories of hoping that one day we could afford a forklift.
1:04.1	Amazon's value as a company skyrocketed during the pandemic,
1:07.0	and so did the already record-breaking personal fortune of the company's founder and
1:12.5	CEO. But at what cost to workers, the economy, and the environment? We'll speak with Brad
1:18.4	Stone, author of Amazon Unbound, Jeff Bezos, and the invention of a global empire that's next
1:25.1	on Forum right after this news.
1:33.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Lily Jamali. Alexa. What do you know about Jeff Bezos?
1:40.3	Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American internet entrepreneur, businessman, media proprietor, and investor. Bezos. Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American internet entrepreneur, businessman, media proprietor,
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