The Billionaires Who Made Our World | show | 2023 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

Landmark series lifting the lid on Silicon Valley's tech titans - Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Musk - who changed our wo | dHNfUjVrTmVpUDFXc1k

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00:00 Where you go from being this, you know, nerdy computer guy

00:03 to being the king of the castle, as it were,

00:06 it appears that his humility has somewhat dropped

00:09 in terms of, "I can do whatever I want."

00:11 [dramatic music]

00:14 The majority of the time people think of Amazon,

00:16 they think of the retail business.

00:18 They don't necessarily consider

00:20 the other business units of Amazon which support that.

00:24 Amazon became one of the largest trucker brokers in the country.

00:28 Amazon is one of the largest airlines in the world.

00:31 [dramatic music]

00:33 But Bezos created one behemoth that dwarfs all others.

00:38 Amazon Web Services, AWS,

00:40 controls about 40% of the world's cloud computing capacity globally.

00:46 [dramatic music]

00:48 Cloud computing company AWS

00:51 services hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide.

00:55 There are ride-sharing applications using AWS,

00:59 game companies, device manufacturers,

01:03 your Fortune 500 companies powered by Amazon.

01:09 AWS is so powerful that even government agencies use AWS.

01:14 [dramatic music]

01:16 As well as America's FBI and CIA,

01:19 UK government departments rely on AWS,

01:23 including MI5, MI6, and GCHQ,

01:28 with the Home Office signing a £120 million deal.

01:33 AWS is so large that economies are based upon

01:38 the way in which they use Amazon services for their country.

01:44 [dramatic music]

01:45 That makes Jeff Bezos super powerful.

01:49 All of those tentacles that reach out into all of those areas,

01:52 what it means is that he has a kind of godlike view across the economy.

01:57 This is a corporation that embodies his vision

02:01 more so than any other founder and corporation out there.

02:05 It's really unlike anything we've ever seen in terms of monopoly power.

02:11 The political power that comes with is tremendous,

02:15 and that is why they're able to get governments to dance to their tune.

02:19 [music fades]

02:21 [silence]

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