Whitney Tilson: “Amazon wanted to put their headquarters here the same way…”

“The sort of signaling you send then you know when someone, when a big business wants to invest in New York City, like Amazon wanted to put their headquarters here the same way that Google and Facebook did. And instead we drove them away and took tens of billions of dollars investment, tens of thousands of great jobs and, and sent that down to Washington D.C. that's crazy. So I will be a super pro business mayor and we'll both booth big businesses and the small businesses like the ones I've started.” (07:47–08:04)

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