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Shifting Gears: Meet Amazon's most important man who's not Jeff Bezos

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Happy Friday and welcome to another issue of Shifting Gears, Business Insider's roundup of all things transportation from the week.

Have you ever heard of Dave Clark? I hadn't until a few months ago. The 21-year Amazon veteran started as a warehouse manager and worked his way up to a top lieutenant of CEO Jeff Bezos.

Now, he oversees the backbone of Amazon's e-commerce operations: getting goods from factory to warehouse to your door. Rachel Premack, Eugene Kim, and Hayley Peterson have the inside story of his rise to power here.

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