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The Amazon billionaire is one of the richest people on the planet, and spends his money on space company Blue Origin, jets, and Beverly Hills mansions.

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♪♪ joining us now to look at "axios" a.m., the co-founder of "axios" michael allen. mike, great to see you today. what is the "axios: 1 big thing" for this morning? >> jonathan, the "axios: 1 big thing" is billionaire ego trip. so this effort by elon musk to buy twitter that weve been talking about this morning is part of a bigger effort by a number of tech billionaires to rewire the online ecosystem. they want to basically build a parallel media system that would have fewer rules, more un...

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Party, as it were. the china description, ubers efforts in china to me encapsulates so much of what youre talking about when talking about hubris also with just plain being wrong in some cases. >> tech founders have always wanted to capture china. google had its dreams of entering china and those were dashed. zuckerberg has long courted xi jinping and tried to get facebook in there. thats not worked. uber thought it could make it. ended up spending $2 billion basically incinerating that, throwin...

Too powerful. what did he say? >> he was asked, is facebook a monopoly, name your competitors. he said amazon, google, and tech companies that dont necessarily compete right with facebook. he acknowledged the right kind of regulation was needed. theyre trying to get in front of the regulation talk, which is inevitably happening. one thing that was really interesting is he said we are responsible for content when it comes to the platform. for so many years, tech founders have just considered them...

Russian meddling. and something else mark zuckerberg said today during his five-hour grilling is he essentially said his biggest regret was just being too slow when it came to russian interference. i think he saw a lot of anger and frustration over the fact that it took too long for facebook to get on top of that, that they were too reactive and not proactive enough. >> zuckerberg was asked questions whether the company is too powerful. what did he say? >> he was asked, is facebook a monopoly, n...

Does it. we should own the editorial decisions. >> you dont normally see tech founders be that open about some of the things that happen, and one quick example, you look at donald trump who put out the anti-muslim tweets last weekend, and a lot of people were saying this is against twitters hateful conduct policies, take it down, and twitter gave us a reason they were keeping it up, and its all about the transparency. >> they also need to get their story straight. one said its high time for a co...

Elizabeth complained and found her employment terminated shortly thereafter. that is such a problem. i know youve been talking to a lot of people privately. you spoke to these two women on camera, but privately im sure people are very candid with you. what are they saying. >> i say at the tech conferences tell me what youre not allowed to say outside. investors too nervous to meet with a woman after hours or grab a drink to talk about investment. talking about being nervous in investing in women...