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]
02:23 [BLANK_AUDIO]