Tag: jeff bezos

• ‘No Space For Bezos’: Venice Locals Protest Billionaire Jeff Bezos As Italian Wedding Looms

  June 13, 2025

  A group protesting Bezos’ upcoming Italian wedding, “No Space for Bezos,” held a protest in a Venetian town square on Friday. https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/06/13/no-space-for-bezos-venice-locals-protest-billionaire-jeff-bezos-as-italian-wedding-looms/?utm_source=BLUESKY&utm_medium=social&utm_content=17291889603&utm_campaign=sprinklrForbesBluesky more ›

• Amazon Prime Is an Economy-Distorting Lie

  June 6, 2021

  Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Last week, the Washington, D.C.… more ›

• Prime Gouging

  September 14, 2020

  Amazon set prices of products during the COVID-19 pandemic to levels that would be considered violations of price gouging laws in many states. Amazon has misled the public, law enforcement,… more ›

• How Are Rich People Getting Richer During the Coronavirus Pandemic?

  April 30, 2020

  For many Americans, the fallout of the novel coronavirus pandemic gets bleaker by the day. More than twice as many people are unemployed in the U.S. right now than there… more ›

• Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

  December 15, 2019

  Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations. SEATTLE — Elastic, a software start-up in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business… more ›

• Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

  October 22, 2019

  What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us. Where in the pantheon of American commercial titans does… more ›

• Is Amazon Unstoppable?

  October 22, 2019

  In 2017, a few months after Forbes named Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the world’s richest man, a rumor spread among the company’s executives: Bill Gates, the former wealthiest… more ›

• Jeff Bezos and the United States of Amazon

  July 29, 2019

  In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, the company that has since made him the richest man in the world. Julia Carrie Wong charts the company’s success and controversies. Plus: Jim… more ›

• Amazon’s VP of Alexa Devices on Working in Voice Technology, Taking Risks, and Alexa’s Hidden Tricks

  May 24, 2019

  Let’s say you want to be a part of building something great in your career—something people can tangibly benefit from, something no one else has thought of, and something you… more ›

• The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program

  May 5, 2019

  It’s easy to forget now, but Amazon wasn’t always the king of online shopping. In the fall of 2004, Jeff Bezos’s company was still mostly selling just books and DVDs.… more ›