Slate Money - The Blackmail Episode
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by Brad Stone to talk about the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and his new book Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, covering things like AMI’s extortion of Bezos, what the single cow burger tells about who Bezos has become, the impact of Amazon’s labor practices, and many more Bezos/Amazon topics.
In the Plus segment: Neobanks.
Mentioned in the show:
“No Thank You, Mr. Pecker,” by Jeff Bezos
“Colonial Pipeline Paid the Ransom. Bad Move,” by Timothy L. O'Brien for Bloomberg
“The Deadly Toll of Amazon’s Trucking Boom,” by Paris Martineau for The Information
“Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace,” by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld for the New York Times
“Simple Banking Customers Still Locked Out; Parent BBVA Says Its Customer Service Crashed,” by Mike Rogoway for Oregon Live
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the blackmail episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm here with Emily Peck. |
| 0:23.3 | Hello. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael. |
| 0:26.5 | Hello. |
| 0:27.3 | And most excitingly, I'm here with Brad Stone of Bloomberg. |
| 0:32.5 | Welcome, Brad. |
| 0:33.6 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:34.1 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:35.1 | Introduce yourself. |
| 0:36.2 | Why are you here on this here show? |
| 0:38.3 | Well, I wrote a book, actually another book, about Jeff Bezos. |
| 0:43.2 | One book about Jeff Bezos is not enough. |
| 0:44.8 | It wasn't enough. The book is Amazon Unbound, Jeff Bezos, and the invention of a global empire for sale now at your friendly local neighborhood bookstore. |
| 0:54.0 | In addition to the site we all know so well, Amazon and other online stores. |
| 0:59.5 | We are going to talk to you about all manner of things, Amazon, which is this bottomless well of things to talk about. |
| 1:07.7 | We're going to talk about its labor practices. |
| 1:10.1 | We're going to talk about how it reflects Jeff Bezos's personality. We're going to talk about its labor practices. We're going to talk about how it |
| 1:11.3 | reflects Jeff Bezos's personality. We're going to talk about his midlife crisis. We're going to talk |
| 1:16.0 | about him being blackmailed by the National Enquirer. We're also going to talk about the |
| 1:21.2 | colonial pipeline, which was blackmailed by a group called Darkside, which might now be |
| 1:26.6 | closing down, according to the Wall Street Journal. |
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