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🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The ongoing drama surrounding Elon Musk and Twitter distracted investors from relevant news involving one of the most important companies in America. (0:20) Jason Moser discusses: - His headline from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter - Why AWS isn't getting spun off - Amazon doubling their fulfillment capacity in just 2 years - The company's approach to MLPs (Minimum Loveable Products) (13:59) Jason is joined by Matt Frankel to take a closer look at lending platform Upstart Holdings, which is down nearly 80% from its 52-week high. Got a question about stocks, industries, or trends? Call our voicemail: (703) 254-1445 Stocks discussed: AMZN, UPST, SQ Host: Chris Hill Guests: Jason Moser, Matt Frankel Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is the stock market having common with a magician?
0:08.1	They both use misdirection to distract the audience from paying attention to something
0:12.5	more important.
0:13.7	Details next.
0:14.7	Motley Fool Money starts now.
0:21.7	I'm Chris Hill and I'm joined by Motley Fool's Senior Analyst Jason Moser.
0:24.8	Thanks for being here.
0:25.8	Hey, thanks for having me.
0:27.6	So for the past week, the dominant story in the investing world has been Elon Musk and
0:33.6	Twitter and I understand why it's been the dominant story, but it is sucked almost all
0:39.4	of the oxygen out of the room.
0:42.3	And things are being overlooked and one of them is the fact that the CEO of one of the most
0:47.8	important companies in America published his annual shareholder letter, the company is
0:53.5	Amazon.
0:54.6	The CEO is Andy Jassy.
0:57.4	First time Amazon has an annual shareholder letter published by someone other than Jeff
1:02.6	Bezos.
1:03.6	And there are a few things I wanted to get to in the letter and the interview that Jassy
1:08.8	did after it was published, but let's just start here.
1:12.7	What you read the letter?
1:13.8	What was your headline?
1:14.8	To me, the headline really simply is Hey folks rest easy.
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