Slate Money - The Blackmail Episode
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by Brad Stone to talk about the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and his new book Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, covering things like AMI’s extortion of Bezos, what the single cow burger tells about who Bezos has become, the impact of Amazon’s labor practices, and many more Bezos/Amazon topics.
In the Plus segment: Neobanks.
Mentioned in the show:
“No Thank You, Mr. Pecker,” by Jeff Bezos
“Colonial Pipeline Paid the Ransom. Bad Move,” by Timothy L. O'Brien for Bloomberg
“The Deadly Toll of…
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