The American Prospect
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Dave Clark was the rare human embodiment of the dark side of a company that seems to outsource most of its dirty work to robots and algorithms.
He joined Amazon the day he graduated business school in 1999 , and built his reputation at the company not in Seattle but from a warehouse in Kentucky .
Clark launched Amazon Flex , the much-loathed Uber-like platform that expanded the ranks of Amazon delivery drivers.
Dave Clark banned the term “restroom” from an internal worker messaging app in an attempt to “reduce employee attrition by fostering happiness in workers” Clark ’s project of establishing its own end-to-end transportation empire cost Amazon dearly, but it is also the source of the companys dominance over retail. Most of the stuff sold on the Amazon platform comes from independent businesses that pay Amazon commissions to appear.
Flexport was a mostly unknown shipping startup whose fortunes and profile had been buoyed by the supply chain crisis and the Twitter fame of its young founder/CEO Ryan Petersen .
With Clark on board, Flexport cast itself as just that something, staffing up with well-remunerated Amazon veterans, signing leases across the country, and brokering a deal to acquire Shopify ’s fledgling supply chain arm in May .
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