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Had a seven-year lead on all your competitors. >> yeah. >> this is like the greatest piece of business luck in the history of business so far as i know. >> why did no one follow quickly? >> its a really good question, and i dont know if we know the answer for sure. in the beginning, a lot of companies would pooh-pooh the cloud and say nobody was going to use it for anything interesting. and when the value proposition is that good for consumers, you can howl at the wind all you want, but you cant...

Responsibility. were aware of that. >> but most americans are not aware of the extent to which our government, our economy, and our homes now rely on amazon. >> alexa, popcorn. >> starting popcorn. >> although a vastly different kind of technology, alexa, like the cloud, has unleashed its own revolution. >> we launched with 13 skills. now we have over 80,000 skills. alexa can actually just do over a million things. >> toni reed has been with amazon for 21 years and headed alexas introduction to ...

On, ill call it between 2000, 2003, that made us think this was an interesting idea. >> most notably, jassy realized that in order to continue expanding and experimenting at a pace their leader had come to expect, amazons computing technology would have to move a lot faster. >> if you need a server to try an experiment, it typically takes you 10 to 18 weeks to get that server. with the cloud, you can spin up thousands of servers in minutes. so we figured if we needed it, it was probably likely t...

>> we have essentially an assembly process. >> but back in 1999 when wilkie first joined amazon, he used his background in manufacturing to transform amazon delivery into what would become amazon prime. you guys didnt even know if this thing was going to work? >> prime? >> true? >> no, we didnt know for sure that customers would love it, but we had a pretty good instinct. >> both of you, both jeffs are big risk takers, is that right? >> i think so. i think prime at the time was a big risk. >> to...

Games the community also supports small game developers and has even made new games possible by financing. so we have the force throughout our community pushing up for it with a crowd funding. that helped us visioning a few ideas and also bring i.c. to the right that. its not just the indie games that are more artistic and unusual also the triple a games the blockbusters a big gaming industry they already have big budgets but even more money is now being come to a total of 2400000000 people are ...

Ripped out of the united states and intellectual property theft. somebody has to do. it i am the chosen one. >> bret: hes holding these press conference every day. you cant say reporters dont have access. >> it would have been great if the cloud had parted and a beam of sunlight had come down on the president. he is the first president to take a stand against scheibe. what is fascinating to me about president trump in just 2.5 years he changed the conversation in washington in both parties on th...

Households are prime members. >> what should that tell us about how important prime is to amazons success? >> i think its very important. but its not the only thing thats important for its success. >> they say about you that youre the most powerful man in the cloud. do you like that description? >> the man behind amazons cloud next. family, starting with unlimited data. use as much as you want, when you want. and if you like netflix, its included on us. plus no surprises on your bill. taxes and ...

Studies economic concentration. >> a handful of big companies have taken over large swaths of our economy. >> we try to understand amazon by talking about all of the different businesses its in. this is a company that wants to control the infrastructure, the rails that other companies need to use in order to get to market. >> the infrastructure -- >> infrastructure lets entrepreneurs do amazing things. >> in addition to the retail platform, the cloud is another area thats infrastructure. >> spee...

Theyre storing all of this content and shipping it out to web users. >> what strikes me is that it worked and then you had a seven-year lead on all of your competitors. >> this is like the greatest piece of business luck in the history of business so far as i know. >> why did no one follow quickly? >> its a really good question and i dont know if we know the answer for sure. in the beginning, a lot of companies would pooh-pooh the cloud and say no one was going to use it for interesting. when th...

Many people watching this have no idea what aws is. where did it come from? >> there were a few things going on that made us think that this was an interesting idea. >> most notably, jassy realized that in order to continue experimenting and expanding, amazons computing technology would have to move a lot faster. >> if you need a server to try and experiment, typically it takes you 10 to 18 weeks to get that server. with the cloud, you can spin off thousands of servers in minutes. we figured if ...