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The untold story of how Jeff Bezos beat the tabloids – The Australian Financial Review
When a gossip rag went after the Amazon CEO, he responded with the brutal efficiency he used to build his business.
Back at Amazons headquarters complex in Seattle, on the sixth floor of Day 1 tower, the planning meeting stretched into the early evening. Harried finance executives scurried in and out of the room distributing spreadsheets. Bezos might not be able to control the scrum of tabloid press gleefully chronicling his sybaritic escapades with Sanchez but he could control head count growth across all of Amazons divisions.
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