The Blackmail Episode

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 57 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the blackmail episode of Slate Money your guide to the
0:18.0	business and finance news of the week I'm Felix salmon of Axios I'm here
0:22.4	with Emily Peck.
0:23.0	Hello. I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael.
0:26.0	Hello.
0:27.0	And most excitingly, I'm here with Bradstone of Bloomberg.
0:32.0	Welcome Brad.
0:33.4	Hi guys, thanks for having me.
0:34.8	Introduce yourself, why are you here on this here show?
0:38.2	Well, I wrote a book, actually another book about Jeff Bezos. One book about Jeff Bezos.
0:43.0	One book about Jeff Bezos is not enough.
0:45.0	It wasn't enough.
0:46.0	The book is Amazon Unbound, Jeff Bezos,
0:48.0	and the invention of a global empire for sale now
0:51.0	at your friendly local neighborhood bookstore in addition to the site
0:55.6	we all know so well Amazon and other online stores. We are going to talk to you
1:01.2	about all manner of things Amazon which is this bottomless
1:05.4	well of things to talk about we're going to talk about its labor practices we're
1:10.1	going to talk about how it reflects Jeff Bezos personality we're going to talk about how it reflects Jeff Bezos personality.
1:13.0	We're going to talk about his mid-life crisis.
1:15.2	We're going to talk about him being blackmailed by the National Inquirer.
1:19.5	We're also going to talk about the colonial pipeline, which was blackmailed by a group called
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