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Balrog0 02/05/20 4:14:29 PM #1: |
http://cityobservatory.org/amazon_bezos_jealous/
Bloomberg Business has a behind-the-scenes post-mortem of the Great Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes, Behind Amazons HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk. In the Fall of 2017, Amazon announced a high stakes competition for cities across North America to become the site of the companys second headquarters location. As Spencer Soper, Matt Day and Henry Goldman chronicle, the competition was kicked off by Jeff Bezos growing jealousy over rival billionaire Elon Musks $1.3 billion subsidy deal for Teslas electric battery plant in Nevada. When Elon Musk secured $1.3 billion from Nevada in 2014 to open a gigantic battery plant, Jeff Bezos noticed. In meetings, the Amazon.com Inc. chief expressed envy for how Musk had pitted five Western states against one another in a bidding war for thousands of manufacturing jobs; he wondered why Amazon was okay with accepting comparatively trifling incentives. It was a theme Bezos returned to often, according to four people privy to his thinking. Then in 2017, an Amazon executive sent around a congratulatory email lauding his team for landing $40 million in government incentives to build a $1.5 billion air hub near Cincinnati. The paltry sum irked Bezos, the people say, and made him even more determined to try something new. the captains of industry, folks --- But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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AngelsNAirwav3s 02/05/20 4:17:20 PM #2: |
I mean was he jealous? Or did he just see Tesla make a shit load of money by comparing bids from different cities and going with the best location for the business, and copy the Tesla business plan?
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Jiek_Fafn 02/05/20 4:19:50 PM #3: |
And so, when Amazon launched a bakeoff for a second headquarters in September 2017
I wish they would've competed in an actual bakeoff. I'm curious to see the quality of country fried steak that Tennessee could make to get Bezos' attention. --- PSN: Jiek ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Balrog0 02/05/20 4:21:16 PM #4: |
AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
I mean was he jealous? Or did he just see Tesla make a shit load of money by comparing bids from different cities and going with the best location for the business, and copy the Tesla business plan? its both, though your framing is wrong, because Bezos made a lot of money by tricking places into thinking he was considering them and leveraging those offers against the places he was actually going to choose --- But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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darkphoenix181 02/05/20 4:23:00 PM #5: |
Isn't Bezos so much richer than Elon it is not funny?
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AngelsNAirwav3s 02/05/20 4:25:47 PM #6: |
Balrog0 posted...
its both, though your framing is wrong, because Bezos made a lot of money by tricking places into thinking he was considering them and leveraging those offers against the places he was actually going to choose Or maybe Amazon just collected bids and compared them? --- Hello world! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Balrog0 02/05/20 4:27:22 PM #7: |
AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
Or maybe Amazon just collected bids and compared them? It's possible in a theoretical sense, but in practice, no. --- But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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