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Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)

May 27, 2021

01:16:33

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Is There a Biggest Investment in Amazon?

02:22

Amazon and the Pendemic Hero

01:59

Amazon's Innovation Fly Will, Brad?

03:40

Introduction

3min

The Story of Adzerk and Kevill

2min

The Story Behind Kevill Dot Co Slash History

2min

Everything Story Needs a Sequel

4min

The Everything Store

3min

Amazon and the Pendemic Hero

2min

The Amazon CEO's Reluctance to Talk to a Journalist

4min

Everything Store - Is Everything Store Your Own Thing?

2min

Amazon Prime Video - What Are You Doing for the Cloud Business?

2min

10.

The Everything Store Is a Super Unique Structure

2min

11.

Amazon Retail vs W Ing Alexa?

3min

12.

Master Works Dot I O - The Alternative Asset Class

4min

13.

Video International - The Gold Mine in the Back Yard

3min

14.

A Story in Mexico, in Part for Two Reasons

1min

15.

Do You Pay Attention to the Competition?

3min

16.

Amazon Fresh

2min

17.

The Third Caterpillar of the Stool of Amazon Is Market Place

1min

18.

Amazon and Janali Baba - A Great Idea for Cross Border Merchandising

4min

19.

Anchor Is a Chinese Manufacturer, and They Have a Lower Cost Structure.

4min

20.

The Basos Lapse of Judgment

3min

21.

Is It True That the Saudis Hacked His Phone?

3min

22.

Achieved - The Official Legal Sponsor of the Special Episodes

2min

23.

The Voice of Alexa

3min

24.

Is There a Biggest Investment in Amazon?

2min

25.

Amazon's Innovation Fly Will, Brad?

4min

26.

Is There a Rivalry Between Elon and Basus?

3min

27.

What's the Difference Between Amazon and Amazon?

3min

28.

I'm at Bradstone on Twitter. That's Great.

2min

29.

The News of the Day Podcast

29sec

Brad Stone joins us to discuss the making of the modern Amazon, and how it's morphed from the "flywheel company" of The Everything Store into a set of interlocking and self-reinforcing businesses that extended both wider and deeper into the global economy than anyone ever imagined. (except perhaps Jeff Bezos) Is Amazon the Standard Oil of our time, or maybe something much, much bigger? Tune in as we dive in!

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Topics covered:

When and why Brad decided The Everything Store needed a sequel
The process of writing the book and access he got at Amazon, including S-Team executives like Dave Clark
The evolution of Amazon's core strategy from the flywheel into a set of "interlocking and self-reinforcing businesses", and how Brad landed on that as the key theme for the book
Amazon's culture and the evolution from "Jeff-bots", and its embodiment in S-team members and company leaders beyond
Amazon's investments in Video and why Bezos was ahead of the pack in realizing its strategic importance (including the rumored as-of-recording MGM deal)
Amazon's secretive "Campfire" event and why Amazon does it despite its very un-Amazon price tag
Brad's take on the future of three major Amazon business lines: Video, International and Marketplace / 3rd Party Sellers
Amazon and Bezos's intense focus on competitors, despite the "theater" of their mantra to only focus on customers
The Bezos "lapses of judgment" in 2018-19 and what it was like reporting on all the craziness around it
Tracking down the "voice of Alexa" Nina Rolle, and Bezos's relationship with Elon!

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