In his first ever testimony before Congress on Wednesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos characterized his company’s role in the U.S. as supporting small- and medium-sized businesses and creating thousands of jobs in various industries.

“Just like the world needs small companies, it also needs large ones,” Bezos said in a prepared statement published ahead of the July 29 hearing. “There are things small companies simply can’t do. I don’t care how good an entrepreneur you are, you’re not going to build an all-fiber Boeing 787 in your garage.”

The House Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony from Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple’s Tim Cook as part of a yearlong investigation of Big Tech’s market dominance and treatment of competitors. The Judiciary panel has collected testimony from mid-level executives of the four firms, competitors and legal experts, but Wednesday’s hearing is the first time the four chief executives have testified jointly before Congress.

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