Video: Amazon HQ2 Will Be More Of A Nuisance Than Anything

Would you want Amazon's second world headquarters in your hometown? Here, Fortune editor Matt Heimer discusses how the cities trying to woo Amazon's HQ2 may be giving up too much to make the investment worthwhile.

Nov 29, 2017

Would you want Amazon's second world headquarters in your hometown? Here, Fortune editor Matt Heimer discusses how the cities trying to woo Amazon's HQ2 may be giving up too much to make the investment worthwhile.

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