Book HackThe Everything WarBy Dana Mattioli
In a Nutshell
Investigative journalist Dana Mattioli catalogs Amazon's greed, the aggressive tactics the company uses to maintain and extend its power, and the emerging fight against it.
Favorite Quote
Under the battle cry of 'customer obsession' - the company's guiding principle - there was a Machiavellian pursuit of growth. It meant using Amazon's size, leverage, and access to data across industries to choke competition, big and small.
Dana Mattioli
Introduction
Amazon is a retail giant.
It is one of the largest companies in the world, and millions of people rely on it daily. In just three decades, it has become part of the infrastructure of modern life.
Amazon's meteoric rise has come at the cost of genuine competition, data security, and even nations' economies around the world.
In her 2024 book, The Everything War, investigative journalist Dana Mattioli chronicles Amazon's sudden rise, how legislators allowed and even encouraged its unfair practices, and why its superiority is finally being challenged.
Examining evidence from across Amazon's history, Mattioli identifies why we should be concerned about a company that many of us would find difficult to live without.
Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack
- 1.Amazon’s dominance has been achieved by avoiding sales taxes, which has impacted the U.S. economy
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