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Feb 2021
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Emergency Pod! Jeff Bezos steps down as ...

Jason Calacanis
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GeekWire - Amazon Web Services posts record $13.5B in *profits* for 2020 in Andy Jassy’s AWS swan song
https://rb.gy/k9m3ep
CNBC - Amazon reports first $100 billion quarter following holiday and pandemic shopping surge
https://rb.gy/v24lfb
Amazon Q4 2020 Earnings
https://rb.gy/653jmd
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