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Feb. 10, 2019 - Steve Pieczenik
04:55
OPUS 121 Battle of Big Egos
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Hi, today I want to talk about the major battle of the titans.
In one corner, we have Donald Trump, President of the United States, weighing in at 235 pounds, 6'3", the President of the United States, and a net worth of $3 billion against a little man who is no taller than 5'7", Weighing 153 pounds.
Jeff Bezos, who comes in with a net worth of, wait a minute, wait a minute, not 3 billion, but 150 billion.
So what is this fight about?
I feel like Howard Cosell at the ring here, because this is going to go on for quite a while.
The fight is the fact that The newspaper, the National Enquirer, run by a friend of Trump, Mr.
Pecker, has revealed pictures of Bezos compromised in a relationship with Mrs.
Sanchez and showing Mr.
Bezos naked.
With his penis and all other kinds of issues and pictures that are not really relevant to the fight.
What is relevant to the fight is that this is two major egos that we're really gonna see coming up against each other.
Number one Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Number two, he owns Amazon, which is a couple hundred billion dollar corporation.
And most of you are buying something from Amazon.
It was started as a bookstore.
I was on that store.
Eventually, I had my nutraceutical company on that store.
I had problems with Amazon.
I pulled out of Amazon because I found out that Bezos, the little nerd, or what seemed to be the little nerd, is far more ruthless than anybody realized.
Now, let me explain what Bezos was all about.
Trump, he knows, is rapacious, greedy, ruthless, doesn't like people, will win at any cost, and doesn't care about the enemy.
Now, little Bezos is maybe somewhat alike.
What do I mean?
He was born as Mr.
Jorgensen, changed his name to Bezos because his father was Cuban.
Thank you.
And he went on from the University of Miami to Princeton, became an engineer, computer engineer, went on to the hedge funds, and on his own started a company called Amazon.
In the beginning, I was an investor in it.
It didn't do very well.
It was a retailer of books.
Then it became a retailer of different products.
But the major part of Amazon was really a secret, which was the fact that That it was a cloud computing company generating over 5 billion cash dollars per year, which allowed him to buy up Whole Foods and a bunch of other retail stores.
Now what makes this little man a ruthless competitor to our grandiose President Trump?
The fact that he, like Trump, believes you have to be number one, you have to be fast, quick, And no excuses.
He is a ruthless boss, Bezos.
He will fire on demand.
He will throw you out and he will throw out any company that doesn't accommodate to his needs.
What do I mean?
He comes across as this nice liberal, whereas Trump is seen as a voracious Republican who is ruthless and doesn't allow immigrants in.
On the other hand, Bezos is the one who develops the facial recognition machinery so that you cannot come into the United States.
And what Bezos doesn't tell you is that he worked with the CIA with a $600 million contract in 2015.
And on top of that, he also received a $10 billion contract for our Department of Defense.
Now, certainly they're not buying tissues and candy from Amazon.
They are buying all kinds of secret information and manipulation and all kinds of internet information.
Gadgetry that Bases has created for both the CIA, which wants to know who is buying what and where, and at the same time with the military, he wants to have facial recognition and all types of internet connivances that we don't know anything about.
So what we have here is the contention of two big egos.
And what I say in the field of psychiatry is when you have the battle of the egos, what do you really have?
The ego in and of itself is a highly destructive dynamic which will destroy any relationship, any company, and any country.
Good luck and good night.
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