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  • In July of

  • 2017 Jeff bayes's made history and surpassed Bill Gates as the richest man in the world with a net worth of a

  • Hundred fifty billion dollars to understand his scale of wealth. Let's take a look at some numbers

  • Earlier this year Jeff announced that he is separating from his wife Mackenzie

  • But because they live in Seattle his wife has the right to a large portion of his wealth

  • to be more precise

  • Thirty-five billion dollars that will make her third richest woman in the world

  • But Jeff isn't worried because he will still be on the top of the list with over 110 billion dollars

  • That's how rich basis is. He can afford a divorce and still be on the top of the Forbes list

  • behind his enormous wealth stands Amazon and if you know anything about this company

  • You know that it's on the way to take over the world which means a hundred fifty billion dollars is just the beginning

  • But how a guy with such a loud love?

  • Who used to sell books is on his way to world dominance

  • We know Amazon is the place to go for online shopping

  • But for Netflix uber and thousands of others

  • Amazon is their way to the Internet. They rely on Amazon Web Services for their websites to function

  • What started as a side project to support?

  • amazon.com quickly grew into a

  • multi-billion dollar company by itself

  • Earning more money than Amazon ever had in fact

  • If you take a look at the numbers more than 40% of the internet relies on AWS

  • only big corporations such as Google Microsoft and Facebook

  • Arendt's on the mercy of Amazon since they are big enough to build their own infrastructure

  • But that's not the only industry that Amazon has its grip on

  • Even for us the consumers

  • Amazon is no longer the middlemen who connects buyers with sellers

  • It's becoming the seller itself

  • Amazon now sells more than

  • 450 of its own brands from watches to clothes

  • cables to furniture

  • Competing with the rest of the sellers on the platform to be on the top of the list and since its Amazon

  • They definitely know how to keep their products on the main page and it's only a matter of time before

  • Everything that sold in Amazon will be produced by Amazon itself

  • from Amazon box to reach your doorstep

  • It needs to go through many hands first

  • From a track to a plane to a van and maybe then to your doorstep an Amazon has heavily been relying on UPS

  • FedEx and US postal office, but that's about to change

  • To be more precise. It's already changing

  • Amazon now has more than 50 planes and

  • hundreds of bands and semi tracks to ship its own products it

  • Already handles a quarter of its shipping and it doesn't seem to stop there

  • Remember Amazon Web Services. It started to provide servers to Amazon websites

  • but quickly began providing

  • service for everyone else and it seems like Amazon wants to do the exact same thing with Amazon Fulfillment and become a

  • logistics company

  • Although Amazon is a small fish compared to UPS and FedEx in the logistics industry

  • Amazon is on its way to change that

  • Once Amazon is completely self-sufficient. It can easily drive shipping costs down

  • It doesn't have to make a profit since it has multiple other businesses that already

  • Generate billions of dollars in revenue and once you ps and FedEx are out of business

  • Then Amazon can slightly increase the prices and enjoy

  • Unbelievable profits since it will be the only player in the market

  • Amazon doesn't just want to be the place where you periodically buy strange gadgets

  • It wants you to buy groceries at Amazon

  • That's why it purchase Whole Foods Market many of us still prefer to physically go to the store

  • But we all know that that's about to change and Amazon doesn't want to miss the opportunity to take over the industry

  • The grocery business is definitely competitive but no one is more qualified to do that than Amazon

  • They have the technology experience and money

  • Even though Netflix too relies on Amazon Amazon is on its way to change that in

  • 2010 Amazon launched

  • Amazon Studios to challenge Netflix, of course, they're too small to be compared to Netflix

  • But that's what the bookstore manager said when Amazon started selling books online

  • they will keep pouring money and creating as many shows as

  • Possible to convince you to switch to Amazon Studios and like UPS and FedEx

  • Netflix doesn't have a side business that earns a pile of cash in

  • Fact with the introduction of Alexa Amazon wants to make online shopping as easy as possible

  • Imagine coming back home after the long day and realizing that you forgot to do the groceries

  • Or what you have to do is to ask Alexa and while you will be waiting for it

  • Alexa would suggest you to watch some of the latest shows and Amazon Studios in

  • 20 years I guess

  • Everything you will buy will probably be made by Amazon

  • So than Amazon and shipped by Amazon and that's how Amazon wants to take over the world

  • And once it does I will definitely make a video on that and if you don't want to miss it

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