
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: ‘We Want to Win an Oscar’
Now that his company has mastered online shopping, original programming and books, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his film and TV studio has its sights set on winning an Oscar.

Now that his company has mastered online shopping, original programming and books, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his film and TV studio has its sights set on winning an Oscar.

Amazon views its work environments as a tough response to slack conditions elsewhere in the labor force, encouraging excellence and superior effort from its workers by setting standards it proudly describes as “unreasonably high.” Many horrified readers thought the NYT article described brutally exploitative conditions covered by corporate happy-talk about achievement.

The New York Times caused a stir in Silicon Valley with a viral article claiming that Amazon.com brutally exploits its white collar workers with unforgiving management practices. The investigation caused such an outcry that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos personally responded with an email to employees assuring them that “callous” management practices wouldn’t be tolerated.