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Founder: Jeff Bezos
Subgroups: A9.com, Amazon Web Services, Alexa Internet, Audible.com, comiXology, Digital Photography Review, Goodreads, Internet Movie Database, Junglee.com, Twitch, Zappos

Member of: Business Roundtable, European Policy Centre
Founder/Owner: Jeff Bezos
Staff: 230800


 

Related Quotations

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Big Tech“So one of the things that these five companies have done kind of masterfully is create these platforms that startups have to use to get to customers. So they all own these cloud-storage services. So Amazon is an example. If you want to store your media online - so, for example, all the movies that you watch on Netflix are actually stored on Amazon servers - so every time you use Netflix, Netflix is kind of paying Amazon for that kind of storage.

Yeah. It's surprising, first of all, because they're such different companies. You wouldn't really know - you wouldn't really think that they would have that kind of connection. And then they're also competitors. Netflix makes original TV shows and so does Amazon. And so, you know, in this way, Netflix has this dependence on one of its competitors. There are lots of different examples of this though.

There - you know, all app makers have to put their apps in the Apple app store or the Google app store. And when they sell in those apps, 30 percent of that money goes to Apple or Google. They all have to advertise on Facebook or Google to get customers because that's become the way to advertise on digital platforms. And so any new app - Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, all the other sort of smaller companies online - have to go through these five to get to their customers. And what ends up happening is that other companies succeed, but always these five benefit off of that success.”
Farhad Manjoo26 October 2017
Platformization“The much loved upstart that gains network effects by managing incentives across the ecosystem loses its benevolent streak as its power increases. This may take many different forms. Amazon, for example, often uses its platform’s data to determine which product lines to get into; eventually it outperforms the merchants who were doing well with those products. Twitter, likewise, has repeatedly changed policies to work against the ecosystem. A recent example saw Twitter pushing live streaming service Meerkat off the platform after acquiring its competitor, Periscope.”Sangeet Paul Choudary8 May 2017
Platformization“So one of the things that these five companies have done kind of masterfully is create these platforms that startups have to use to get to customers. So they all own these cloud-storage services. So Amazon is an example. If you want to store your media online - so, for example, all the movies that you watch on Netflix are actually stored on Amazon servers - so every time you use Netflix, Netflix is kind of paying Amazon for that kind of storage.

Yeah. It's surprising, first of all, because they're such different companies. You wouldn't really know - you wouldn't really think that they would have that kind of connection. And then they're also competitors. Netflix makes original TV shows and so does Amazon. And so, you know, in this way, Netflix has this dependence on one of its competitors. There are lots of different examples of this though.

There - you know, all app makers have to put their apps in the Apple app store or the Google app store. And when they sell in those apps, 30 percent of that money goes to Apple or Google. They all have to advertise on Facebook or Google to get customers because that's become the way to advertise on digital platforms. And so any new app - Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, all the other sort of smaller companies online - have to go through these five to get to their customers. And what ends up happening is that other companies succeed, but always these five benefit off of that success.”
Farhad Manjoo26 October 2017

 

Employee on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedDescription
Jay CarneySenior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs.2 March 2015Former White House Press Secretary

 

Known members

4 of the 15 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Keith B. AlexanderChief of the NSA, now infamous for his mendacious denials regarding the illegal mass surveillance of US citizens.
Jamie GorelickUSDSO, Deputy Attorney General of the United States 1994-1997, Clade X
Indra NooyiIndra K. Nooyi. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo.
Patty StonesiferBill Gates crony

 

Documents sourced from Amazon

TitleTypeSubject(s)Publication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:The Shadow FactoryBookCIA
The Pentagon
National Security Agency
2008James BamfordThe workings and scope of the US Military-Intelligence complex focussing particularly on the NSA.
Introduction.
File:Report from Iron Mountain.pdfbookWar
NWO
1967Leonard LewinA precient analysis of why war is considered necessary by the power-brokers of the western world
File:Spycatcher.pdfebookMI5Peter WrightMemoirs of former senior MI5 officer Peter Wright.
File:The Holocaust Industry.pdfbook"The Holocaust"20 July 2000Norman FinkelsteinDevastating criticism of the way in which Jewish organisations use their Official Narrative of "The Holocaust" to extort money from the alleged perpetrators and of those who weren't sufficiently focused on that extortion
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