Amazon

 https://www.amazon.com/    
Started: 1994
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

Page	Quote	Author	Date
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 Manjoo	26 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 Choudary	8 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 Manjoo	26 October 2017

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	Description
Jay Carney	Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs.	2 March 2015	Former White House Press Secretary

 

Known members

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

Member	Description
Keith B. Alexander	Chief of the NSA, now infamous for his mendacious denials regarding the illegal mass surveillance of US citizens.
Jamie Gorelick	USDSO, Deputy Attorney General of the United States 1994-1997, Clade X
Patty Stonesifer	Bill Gates crony

 

Documents sourced from Amazon

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Shadow Factory	Book	CIA The Pentagon National Security Agency	2008	James Bamford	The workings and scope of the US Military-Intelligence complex focussing particularly on the NSA. Introduction.
File:Report from Iron Mountain.pdf	book	War	1967	Leonard Lewin	A precient analysis of why war is considered necessary by the power-brokers of the western world
File:Spycatcher.pdf	ebook	MI5		Peter Wright	Memoirs of former senior MI5 officer Peter Wright.
File:The Holocaust Industry.pdf	book	"The Holocaust"	20 July 2000	Norman Finkelstein	Devastating 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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