Amazon.com

Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern
life — more than this one. We’ve waited seven years to do this
episode, and are so, so excited to finally dive into every nook
and cranny of this legendary company. And of course because we’re
Acquired and this is Amazon, we couldn’t contain it all to just
one episode… even a 4+ hour one! So today we focus on Amazon.com
the retail business, and we’ll have another full episode on AWS
coming soon. And because all great series are trilogies, to fully
understand Amazon we highly recommend starting first with our
previous episode on Walmart, which truly is the giant’s shoulder
that Jeff Bezos stood upon. Let’s go!! 


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Links:


Jeff’s first public Amazon interview

 Our early-Acquired-days interview with Tom Alberg

 Episode sources



Carve Outs:


Rick Rubin on the Lex Fridman Podcast

Ursula Le Guin

Dissect Season 2 on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Elden Ring (again) 



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this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is
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should do your own research and make your own independent
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