aircraft and realized that everyone was safe he turned to the cowboy and he said yeah, maybe horseback was the way go and let out one of those bellowing laughs that he s so famous for. back on firm ground bezos was looking far into the future in other ways. bezos realized the potential of letting others use amazon as a platform to sell their products. we designed from the get go that we were going to have tens of thousands of sellers at amazon. you click on that tab and you find a collection of basically all of the selection from 400 major brands. they got into the customer s psyche that amazon was everything store. there was another side to this arrangement. amazon monitored its partners sales to identify hot products. then swooped in and began selling similar items, often for lower prices. the partnership became a cut throat competition with jeff bezos. he s a tough guy.
precipitation company pill pack for about a billion dollars each and he paid more than 13 billion dollars to get into super markets. amazon is buying whole foods. i can say that almost every industry out there has the in the back of their mind, they are worried that jeff bezos will come knocking. his philosophy is relentless cost cutting and lowering prices. amazon is playing by the rules and they are playing to win. and so stop complaining about it and get on and figure how you are going to compete. nowhere was amazon s raw power more evident than during the race to land hq2. cities including right here in los angeles are falling over themselves to show amazon why they should become home to the second amazon headquarters. i think it is a ridiculous circus that cities are participating? critics called the process nothing more than a bidding war staged by amazon to extract huge
you ve got to get in i know what a bath is smile honey this thing is like. first kid ready here we go by their second kid, every parent is an expert and. .more likely to choose luvs, than first time parents. live, learn and get luvs in 1995 when i first met jeff, honestly, even though i wanted to invest i had no idea that amazon was going to become what it became today. and i don t think jeff did either. jeff and mackenzie bezos settled into a modest house in
companies imploding all around them. amazon s investors, employees, and the general public were suddenly left wondering if betting on jeff bezos was a huge mistake. coming up. so they are predicting that we re going to run out of cash by december which is just complete absolute pure unadulterated hogwash. .8 absolute pure unadulterated hogwash. .8 staying at hampton for a work trip. when your flight gets in late, it s never too early for coffee. oh no no no. your new boss seems cool, but she might not be sweatpants cool.
but others close to him including amazon board member tom did speak with us. i think people to advance their particular political agenda will make allegations which are not fact or based on complete fact. they include the number of people on food stamps, temporary and part-time. amazon employees a lot of the people. there s also been criticism of the company for allegedly unsafe working conditions. this year amazon which has over 175 fulfillment centers around the world and more than half a million employees was ranked one of the 12 worst companies to work for by the national counsel for osha. you could look and say this extraordinary entrepreneur who has done extraordinary well is he doing enough for his employees? that s a question many people are asking sgr amazon has insisted workers safety is a high priority. and that they are proud of their record. there s no getting around it.