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• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  Zuckerberg's strategy for the big tech congressional hearing: To portray Facebook as an American success story, now threatened by the rise of Chinese apps and tech around the world. (To make the point that weakening FB = strengthening China) https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @delrey Jason Del Rey on x

  Amazon has just published @JeffBezos's opening statement for tomorrow's Congressional antitrust hearing. Some talking points: *Amazon the inventor *Amazon the job creator *Amazon the tiny retail company in a highly competitive market (see screenshot) https://blog.aboutamazon.com/…

• @andrewrsorkin Andrew Ross Sorkin on x

  To @JeffBezos: For years, users of the iOS Kindle app have been forced to buy e-books using a web browser because @amazon has refused to pay @Apple the 30 percent cut it takes on all in-app payments. Do you believe that policy is an abuse of Apple's market power?

• @davidshepardson @davidshepardson on x

  More from @JeffBezos “It's not a coincidence that Amazon was born in this country” https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @sub8u Subrahmanyam Kvj on x

  You might agree or disagree on how Amazon plays its market leader in ecommerce role, but these couple of paragraphs in @JeffBezos' statement are a masterclass in how businesses need to look at winning and retaining customer trust. $AMZN https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... https://t…

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  No better way to show “customer obsession” than to use the word “customer” 37 times in an opening statement. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  This is an amazing opening statement from Jeff Bezos. From retail & e-books to cloud services, Amazon has fundamentally been about going further than any competitor when it comes to keeping customers happy. His family backstory is the American Dream. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/…

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  Here's a fun thing to do ahead of tomorrow's House hearing: Read Jeff Bezos' testimony, in which he cites “customer obsession” https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... Then watch our three-part video series on how that mission has actually put customers at risk https://www.wsj.com/...

• @daiwaka Daisuke Wakabayashi on x

  My 2 cents - The Bezos statement reads like he actually wrote it or at the very least, only a handful of people “weighed in.” Sundar's statement feels like it was written collectively by dozens in a Google doc. Amazon: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... Google: https://docs.house.…

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  This testimony gets at the core issue Congress must consider tomorrow when Jeff Bezos testifies about Amazon: who were his parents, and what did they do for work? https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @sharkbiotech Dan Rosenblum on x

  some stats from Jeff Bezos testimony $AMZN has invested $270 billion in the US and has created 700k INDIRECT jobs There are 1.7 million businesses selling in AMZN stores. 3rd party stores account for 2.2 million jobs they hired 175k people during #covid19 https://blog.aboutamazon…

• @johnolilly John Lilly on x

  While I think Amazon can and should do more, this is wonderful. And a very clear indicator as to why they're dominant in the way they are right now. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ...

• @dcurtis Dustin Curtis on x

  Read this. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... It is inspiring.

• @b_fung Brian Fung on x

  Amazon has posted Jeff Bezos's prepared congressional testimony. He's expected to open with a personal touch, describing the background of his mother and father before saying they took a big risk by investing their life savings in their son's idea. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ .…

• @kshashi Shashikant Kore on x

  The Bezos' statement is an exceptionally persuasive piece of writing. It's worth reading. One interesting nugget - Infosys is one of the 4 global companies that has signed The Climate Pledge initiative, which has $2bn funding from Amazon. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ...

• @dmccabe David McCabe on x

  Here's Jeff Bezos' prepared testimony for the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow. This will be his first appearance before Congress in the more than two decades he's been running Amazon. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ...

• @profgalloway Scott Galloway on x

  Bezos will receive the least ire, as his command of soft power is second only to China #congressionalhearings #antitrust https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ...

• @rauchg Guillermo Rauch on x

  “It's not a coincidence that Amazon was born in this country. More than anywhere on Earth, new companies can start, grow, and thrive here in the U.S. Our country embraces resourcefulness and self-reliance, and it embraces builders who start from scratch” https://blog.aboutamazon.…

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  Market definition is a basic part of competition policy. Amazon has 5% of US retail, 50% of books, over three quarter of ebooks, but a tiny share of groceries. If you want to deal with real problems, you have to pick the market that matters.

• @can @can on x

  Bezos letter tugs at all the correct patriotic heartstrings but, man, is this particularly a good time to look around and say “America is doing great and we should be doing more of what we've been doing” https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ...