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Married to a young coworker named mckenzie tuttle and had a bright future at d.e. shaw. but he couldn't ignore the massive potential of what he saw as an impending e commerce revolution. >> when jeff got the idea of amazon he went to david shaw who's an extraordinarily successful and smart guy and he said david, here is the thing i want to do. and david listened and he said that's a great idea. for somebody who doesn't already have a really good job. >> in the end the opportunity to help invent the future outweighed the security of a really good job. and bezos told shaw he was leaving to break...

>> i have never sought that title. and it was fine being the second wealthiest person in the world. that actually worked sglin if the stock price is the richest person of the world stock goes down by something he's not. i would doubt jeff cares. >> others certainly do. >> i think i understand it his wealth wept up $2 billion yesterday. amazon had a good day. >> sanders accused amazon of not playing blue collar workers a living wage. in 2018 a report on the new site the intercept cited data suggesting over 30% of amazon employees in arizona were on government food assistance. >> people start to...

E has plenty of business to do in d.c. >> the idea is the defense department has been for the past few years looking to outsources its cloud computing to one company. and if amazon wins it they will be overnight one of the biggest government contractors in the federal government. >> but amazon may face a d.c. battle with much higher stakes. its own survival. the bigger a.m. gemazon gets th better the chance federal regulators move to break it up. >> they are going face real political head winds. >> we don't break them up because we are able. we break them up because they are capitalists and it...

Photographs and texts? >> we have multiple sources within ami itself. the parent company. telling us the source of the leaks was the brother of the bezos mistress. michael sanchez. >> he denied leaking the photographs and texts. his alleged ties to allies of president trump make this entire scandal a high stakes match of political drama. >> betting against jeff bezos has almost always been a losing proposition. >> what's really incredible is this is a day one. this is the very beginning. this is the kitty hawk stage. >> it was him. on his knees in a garage starting the company. and now he's a ...

1300 workers were laid off. most important bezos convinced wall street to be patient, selling investors on the long-term vision of amazon over short-term profits. >> despite all of your success, profit remains a dim light at the end of the tunnel. >> well first of all you're right. of course we are a famously unprofitable company. but that is a deliberate strategy. we are investing. >> bezos took his profits and used them to fill the site with ab ever expanding list of new products. toy, electronics, hardware, even clothes. product launches became media events with bezos front and center. >> t...