Amazon is known for its amazing Prime service. And yes, the tech giant still owns your favorite organic grocery store Whole Foods. But the real financial goldmine for Amazon is its cloud services business called AWS. It's this business that is helping shape the very future of artificial intelligence in America. At the helm of this business is the wine-loving, weekend water skier Adam Selipsky. In episode four of Opening Bid, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi chats with the Amazon AWS CEO on if he wakes up each day wanting to crush rivals Microsoft and Google, his biggest fears around AI - and one of his key mistakes made early on in his rise to the very peak of corporate America.

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