Bezos is the Henry Ford of the digital age By Harry de Quetteville Normal text size Advertisement The pantheon of American business is filled with countless titans. Figures so celebrated, so powerful, that while the early black and white photos of them in stiff portrait poses have long since faded, their names live on - and affect our lives still. JP Morgan and Levi Strauss shaped and still shape how we spend and what we wear. Andrew Carnegie taught us how to make money, and then how to give it away. The entertainment empire created by Walt Disney has never been more powerful than it is today.