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- Report: Amazon’s negotiation strategy for HQ2 was called ‘Fuck you. We’re Amazon’
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Tuesday 4 February 2020
A recent report from Bloomberg revealed that Amazon‘s negotiation strategy during its recent failed bid to build a second headquarters (HQ2) in New York and Virginia was internally referred to as “Fuck you. We’re Amazon.” In 2017 Amazon announced it had begun a global search for a city to host HQ2 prompting hundreds of cities to submit bids. A media circus quickly ensued and a reality TV-style atmosphere surrounded the entire event as Amazon slowly whittled its list down to 20 top choices. Eventually, it decided to split HQ2 between New York and Virginia. Unfortunately for Amazon, it only negotiated…
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