40% of everything sold online in the United States is through Amazon. Its web services division owns almost a third of the worldwide cloud infrastructure. Amazon is a goliath. Dana Mattioli is an investigative journalist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.” Mary Long caught up with Mattioli for a conversation about: - Amazon’s early days and how it withstood years of sustained losses. - How Amazon makes Wall Street look genteel. - The lengths that the company went to get information from competitors. Companies discussed: AMZN, TGT, EBAY Host: Mary Long Guest: Dana Mattioli Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dez Jones, Austin Morgan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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