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i spoke yesterday where it's founder and ceo jeff bezos.il giant ready for retail stores? >> are you hided for brick-and-mortar. >> i get asked this question a lot. we would love to but if we could have a different idea. so one of the things that we are, we don't do very well at amazon is do a me too product offering. when i look at physical retail stores it's very well served, the people who operate physical retail stores are very good at it. and so the question we would always have before we would embark on such a thing is what's the idea? what would we do that would be different? how would it be different? we don't want to do things because we can do them. we want to do something -- we don't want to be redundant. >> would it have any advantage other than acprofit center which is a pretty good advantage. >> that's the kind of question we ask ourselves when we look for something that would make it not a me too offering. we want it to be differentiated. if somebody -- if a hundred companies are doing something and you're the 101st you're no

>> rose: welcome to our program, tonight jeff bezos. the c.e.oandfounder of amazon and "fortune" magazine's businessperson of the year. >> and so far the rate of change on the internet if anything is accelerating. you know, if i go back in time to 1999, i could keep track myself of most of the things happening on-line. today there's so much innovation, so much-- so many tiny start-up companies. and not just in the u.s. all over the world. this is a big global phenomenon. and it's now impossible to keep track of how every company and how people are using the internet. there's so much dynamism. that's what makes me optimistic that it's still at the very beginning. >> rose: and british actress keira knightley inhabits her latest tragic her win on anna karenina. >> doing pride & prejudice was frightening because that is the character people love some of and women want to be that anna is not that kind of a creature. she's a sort of very difficult jewel like creare but she' not somebody that people want to be. so from that kind of perspective

and google says "i have a great relationship with jeff bezos, he was one of our early investors." then they watch your show and they say "oh, my god, he's going to create a cell phone!" >> rose: he has a different attitude about tablets. he's not so much interested in how many kindles you buy is he's interested in you having a kind sol you can access these other things that he sells. >> rose: he's done two things. that's one thing that was in retrospect brilliant and, again, goes against the grain of wall street. why aren't you concerned about your margin? apple has this great big fat profit margin on each ipad. >> rose: high price items comparatively. >> and by a soes says no, no, i'm not interested in just buying books, i want them to buy clothing and barbecues. b, the second thing he does, which is really unbelievable, when he introduced the new round of kindles, not the last round, the one before that and he did it at a price point several hundred dollars below apple's ipad. people said "it won't work." well, he proved he was right. in fact, price did matter. and kindle sales

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dns-- jeff bezos is here, the c.e.o. of amazon.com. he founded the company in 1994 out of his garage as an on-line bookseller. today it is a 100 billion dollar empire and the world's largest e-commerce retailer. this week fortune named him as 2012 businessperson of the year. the magazine writes that he is the ultimate disrupter. bezos has upended the book industry and displaced electronic merchants. now amazon is pushing into everything from couture retailing and feet film productions to i pad worthy manufacturing. i'm pleased to have him back at this table. welcome and congratulation this very nice. >> thanks, charlry, it is great to be here. >> rose: tell me where amazon is and where it's going. >> well, you know, we've been at it for 18 years now. and the happiest thing i can tell su we're still having fun. so it is a big team of people working hard. we have an unusual business approach in some ways. we're not competitor-obsessed, we're customer obsessed. we start with the customer and work backwards. we are willing to take a long-t

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jeff bezos has always thought big.ooks and created a little website called amazon.com. 17 years later he's transformed the way we all shop a the way we read with the kindle fire, and the future looks pretty bright for the innovative ceo. this month "fortune" magazine named him their 2012 business person of the year. good morning, how are you? >> doing great. >> a couple days ago you were disappointed when "people" magazine failed to name you the sexiest man alive, so did this take some of the sting out of it? >> i'm still recovering. >> yeah? >> this is very complimentary in the world of business. one of the venture capitalists interviewed in this article said if you asked who the ceo they admired the most is, he would show you up, on 95% of the ballots. go ahead, can you say something. i know you're modest but that's a big deal. >> the fact is amazon has a pioneering culture so it's a big team of people who are experimenters and innovators, and we're willing to fail, willing to try things. >> and actually lose money i

. >>> ceo jeff bezos expects a record holiday shopping season for amazon and on the "today" show this morning, he said he's not really worried about his brick and mortar competitors and their same day sales gimmicks. >> e-commerce even from its very beginning has been hypercompetitive. that's a good thing for customers and even good for the companies that embrace that dynamic. >> they're forcing you to innovate as well. >> always. that's what happens in businesses, companies force each other to innovate so we have to evolve. and we are. we're providing better customer experience today than we ever have. >> let's bring in a product strategist. not afraid of the brick and mortars. should he be? >> i don't think. they've done a really nice job and especially with the holidays coming up. they've got a compelling holiday offering for holiday shoppers. a couple of weeks ago i needed to buy a book, was at the book store, saw something cute i thought my niece would like. scanned the bar code, her address was already on file and she got it two days later. you can't beat that convenience. can y

. -- because jeff bezos support to the gay marriage amendment in washington state. >> it is like youtubest campaigns are about changing the status quo. it tends toward social justice. but it is certainly the case -- look at check -- chick fil'a. there were such asking for universities to revoke their right to sell because they fund anti-gay movement. there were opposite campaigns, asking universities to affirm the free-speech rights. what you find is campaigns that are building people up, that scene just who, that resonate with moral value -- that seem just, they resonate with moral value. things that seem to be regressive cannot be shared as vrially -- virally. >> two things are happening. we are more not worked and ever. the ability of an individual to communicate -- mass communication without mass media, available almost to individuals. we are more connected than ever. on the other hand, politically, we are as polarized as ever. highest level of party-line voting in congress since the late 19th century. it is possible barack obama will win 80% of non-white votes and only 40% of whites

. >> reporter: when you read articles about jeff bezos, "fortune" magazine, he is is business "person of the year". he is quoted saying yes he started out that way but he likes to be counted on and he likes his customers to count on him. it is a philosophy you see at this company that plays down to everything they do. these men and women that you see taking every item out, they're actually scanning each item into the computer system. so everything is tracked. millions of upon millions, upon millions of items. so if you spend five bucks on a dvd, it gets the same consideration as that $1,000 television i was telling you about. every consumer item tracked to your doorstep. jon: never know it when you click on the little box what is going on behind the scenes. adam shapiro thank you. jenna: a great live shot there, right? one of the reasons that you might want to shop online is avoiding something like this, a mall brawl caught on somebody's iphone. it happened shortly after midnight on black friday near sacramento, california. according to local reports, that we can not confirm at this t

. >> yeah, we're talking about jeff bezos, ceo of amazon, 2012 businessperson of the year. he really is a disrupter. you talked about books and you know about borns and noble and all those companies and music and tv shows, movies, and then electronics. i mean, the company, it's a lot like apple on the one hand in that it's disrupting all these businesses, on the other hand it's a lot like walmart because they have very low margins and has become america's store. he's a very singular guy in the way he does business and treats his employees. doesn't pay high salaries. makes a senior management write long memos and they all sit around and read themming to. he thinkses about the customer more than competitors. and one of his favorite things to say about the competition when he does think about competitors is, your margin is my opportunity, which is kind of a chilling thing for other companies. >> i just want to talk about changing things. here's my iphone. >> yeah. >> and i've got amazon. i went ahead because i just did this as an experiment. i don't do a whole lot of online sh

. >> looks like jeff bezos. >> we said that.as going to talk about does anyone have any hair at microsoft, jon, but i was forgetting who was introing all, i apologize hair doesn't matter. it's a good look, it is. i like it, but and i think it makes you look smarter if you're at microsoft, doesn't it? that guy had a brain pan looks like, right? >> he was shaved all the way around. that's part of the look. >> i think that's part of the look. >> i'm not sure ballmer does that. >> you know the testosterone. >> obviously. >> because we are not very testosterone heavy. >> i'm aware. >> not my fault. >>> more from our guest host steven roach a senior fellow at yale university and former executive at morgan stanley and a market master. >> always a market master. >> you've been listening this the whole morning through telling us where you see things headed it's a gloomy outlook when you start looking down the road with or without the fiscal cliff. what does that mean for the markets at some point? >> the gloomy global growth, becky, will

. >> we saw a petition to boycott amazon because jeff bezos supported the gay marriage amendment in washington state. >> it is like youtube, an open platform. most campaigns are about changing the status quo. it tends toward social justice. but it is certainly the case -- look at chick-fil-a. they were such asking for universities to revoke their right to sell because they fund anti-gay movements. there were opposite campaigns, asking universities to affirm the free-speech rights. what you find is campaigns that are building people up, that seem just, they resonate with moral value. things that seem to be regressive cannot be shared as virally. >> two things are happening. we are more networked than ever. the ability of an individual to communicate -- mass communication without mass media, available almost to individuals. we are more connected than ever. on the other hand, politically, we are as polarized as ever. highest level of party-line voting in congress since the late 19th century. it is possible barack obama will win 80% of non-white votes and only 40% of whites. the gap with the oppos

jeff bezos was a single largest individual. jeff and his wife contributed $ 2.5 million. lgbt people have stood up arm and arm with our allies. >> the blue state arguments -- is a lot of spin there. it is true it happened in blue states. >> maine has two republican senators in a republican governor. i would not call these two ripple state. -- these liberal states. california also won in props eight. there are many who thought maryland would be a challenge because we did not have the same amount of time. it is 81st date. our opposition thought they had maryland law. washington state and maryland -- strong catholic states. they thought they had it there because it was a catholic state. majority of catholics support marriage equality. all of the advantages they thought they had they no longer have. >> are you in power to try to move into more conservative states? >> we have to be smart strategically. we have the other side on the defensive for the first time. we have been winning in sleet -- state legislators across the country. state and federal courts. the playing field th