Introducing Crazy/Genius: Should We Break Up Amazon?

The Atlantic Interview

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Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today, we bring you the second episode of our new show Crazy/Genius, hosted by Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson. In this episode, Derek asks if Amazon – which may soon be the first trillion-dollar company in the history of the world – has become a dangerous monopoly threatening the U.S. economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic.
0:08.0	The Atlantic interview is still on a break, but I wanted to share something we've been working on here.
0:12.7	It's called Crazy Genius.
0:14.8	On our new show, our staff writer Derek Thompson spends each episode asking a big question
0:19.1	about how tech is changing the world, and he brings on smart interesting people to help him answer these questions.
0:25.0	This week he asked, should we break up Amazon?
0:28.0	We hope you listen and we hope you enjoy it. Amazon is devouring the world.
0:37.0	Its value is doubled in a year.
0:39.0	Its CEO Jeff Bezos is now the richest man on the planet. The company seems unstoppable.
0:45.2	Climbing the food chain, Amazon buys Whole Foods.
0:49.5	Amazon is going Hollywood. A new venture from Amazon called Prime Wardro.
0:54.3	Amazon Key. Amazon Dance.
0:56.3	Locker.
0:57.3	Amazon Fresh.
0:58.3	Alexa. Amazon Basis.
0:59.7	Business. Amazon Box.
1:01.3	Amazon.com has become the Everything store.
1:05.0	And Amazon's dominance might be a very bad thing.
1:09.6	Dictators always start benign, but power corrupts.
1:13.0	I'm Derek Thompson.
1:18.0	This is crazy genius.
1:22.0	Eight weeks, eight questions about how technology is changing the world,
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