If you’ve been online in the last few week, you know that Amazon Prime day was a thing that just happened, leading to many articles so conveniently timed exploring CEO Jeff Bezos, the richest man in modern history.
More relevantly to sports fans is the fact the Amazon, plus Netflix, Google and Facebook (forming FANG, as they’re regularly referred to) have spent billions on content in the past year alone, with goals to triple their individual spending within the next five years. Tech companies like Amazon have become the new moneymakers in a digital world, and expecting them to be content with what they have runs counter to the entire history of American capitalism.