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

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