Brian Dumaine

“Gise had deep experience in the way the government worked and was privy to some of the most advanced and secretive technology of his day. During those summers on the ranch, Bezos says that his grandfather would tell him stories about the missile defense systems he worked on during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. That made a deep impression on the young Bezos. Today, among the Silicon Valley titans, he is one of the most pro-government CEOs. Amazon’s cloud computing business has won multibillion-dollar contracts from the Pentagon and the CIA. The significance of that business to Amazon is one reason why, in 2018, Bezos put his new second headquarters in northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C., and why he paid $23 million for an old textile museum in D.C.’s swish Kalorama area—his neighbors are the Obamas and Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump”
― Brian Dumaine, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It

“FedEx in mid-2019 announced that it would no longer distribute Amazon packages in the U.S. Indeed, it disclosed in its 10-K SEC filing that given the significant capital Amazon has invested over the years in its shipping fleet, it now considers the e-commerce giant to be a competitor.”
― Brian Dumaine, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It