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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, along

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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com. It is time to talk Amazon.

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Speaker 1: It's the story of yesterday evening, today and for what

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Speaker 1: will be the foreseeable future, at least in big tech.

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Speaker 1: Let's bring in somebody who knows a lot about the company.

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Speaker 1: He was an early investor. Matt mclwaine is Group managing

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Speaker 1: director at Madrona Ventures. Matt, your reaction to Bezos's I

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Speaker 1: don't really want to call a departure. He's still going

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Speaker 1: to be executive chairman. What exactly will you be doing? Well?

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Speaker 1: I think you'll get to keep being a pioneer and

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Speaker 1: and thinking about the next major areas where you know

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Speaker 1: Amazon can find opportunity. Um. I mean I was surprised

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Speaker 1: he got to do a lot of that pioneering and

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Speaker 1: envisioning in the role today. But On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: I am highly confident that Andy Jassie, who's going to

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Speaker 1: be taking over as CEO, will do an incredible job

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Speaker 1: in that role. He is absolutely the most logical choice

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Speaker 1: for all kinds of reasons. And man, any uh, anything

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Speaker 1: we should take away as it relates to timing. Why Now,

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Speaker 1: you know, they really did have an exceptionally good year

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Speaker 1: in really tough circumstances, and Jeff leaned into the business

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Speaker 1: and helped them innovate, not only on uh you know,

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Speaker 1: how are we going to scale up to to support

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Speaker 1: all of this increased demand? And I think they spent

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Speaker 1: over ten billion dollars on COVID related you know, testing

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Speaker 1: and processes and protocols so that they could keep their

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Speaker 1: employees healthy while they're continuing to serve their customers. So

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Speaker 1: that must have been an exhausting year. I know how

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Speaker 1: exhausting it's been for all the startups we work with,

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Speaker 1: and it mobi Jeff just said, look, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: there's certain aspects of that role that I think another

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Speaker 1: Jeff's you know, technical adviser, think of that. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of like his chief of staff twenty years ago, early

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Speaker 1: in his tenure at Amazon, and then you know, Andy,

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Speaker 1: through that process, you know, helped identify and transform how

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Speaker 1: kind of cloud based infrastructure. And then he went up

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Speaker 1: and started you know, Amazon Web Services. You know, I

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Speaker 1: remember hosting with Andy fourteen years ago, uh an event

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Speaker 1: up to make fond adventure capitalist and Andy got up

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Speaker 1: and said, hey, we've got this new service. It's called

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Speaker 1: We're calling it Amazon Web Services, and new startups might

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Speaker 1: want to give it a try. Fourteen years later, that

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Speaker 1: as a fifty billion in revenue business growing at almost

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Speaker 1: it's very hold and catch fire. So Amazon stock unchanged today,

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Speaker 1: and obviously people are quite fine with this change. But

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Speaker 1: I wonder, you know, what what does it mean for

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Speaker 1: the future of Jeff Bezos. Does he want to concentrate,

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Speaker 1: for example, on Blue Origin is space company, and it's

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Speaker 1: maybe his philanthropic work. I mean, we know he does

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Speaker 1: philanthropic work. We're not quite sure where or was. But

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Speaker 1: he also of course owns the Washington Post or while

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Speaker 1: Jeff is fabulously curious, and so I wouldn't put it

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Speaker 1: passed him to start something new. But he has been

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Speaker 1: investing in several areas outside of Amazon. You know, you

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Speaker 1: I think stylistically, Jeff and Andy and the Amazon folks

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Speaker 1: Jeff has been incredibly involved in education and educational opportunities

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Speaker 1: us today. One of Amazon's early investors, early early investors

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Speaker 1: want Michael Wayne, group lunging director at Madrona Ventures, and

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Speaker 1: so now we want to bring in somebody with a

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Speaker 1: Working Backwards Insides, Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon. He

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Speaker 1: it tell us something about Jeff Bezos that we may

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Speaker 1: not know well. So I worked with at Amazon started

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Speaker 1: and create new businesses that are really customer obsessed, long

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Speaker 1: one of Jeff's and Amazon's enduring legacies that will last

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Speaker 1: mean even with them Amazon, I presume Colin you're talking

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Speaker 1: of my thoughts, h David, because what a quarter and

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Speaker 1: when you talk to investors that the long term bullish

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Speaker 1: one might argue that the secular shift that we've seen

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Speaker 1: Amazon's strengths. David, thank you so much for all of

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Speaker 1: of the stories. David Garrity is Chief Market Strategies for

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Speaker 1: a laid Law and Company and partner at bt Block

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Speaker 1: And I think the last point is extremely well taken.

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Speaker 1: We're seeing a whole bunch of shops raise their Amazon

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Speaker 1: So for example, that Jeffreys the price target is now

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Speaker 1: these prices are just phenomenal. Pole. Yeah, they really are.

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Speaker 1: Just point to the long term bullish call I think

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