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The Sniper: Dave Clark, the man who built Amazon's delivery machine

By Spencer Soper
Washington Post·
10 mins to read


Shortly after being named Amazon.com's global logistics chief in 2013, Dave Clark held a conference call with his new reports. During the meet-and-greet, according to a person on the call, Clark described his early-career habit of lurking in the shadows of Amazon warehouses and scoping out slackers he could fire, which earned him the nickname The Sniper.

Clark speaks in a monotone and is hard to read, but the message was clear enough: The new boss wanted his underlings to

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