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Company: Amazon founded. [97] 1995 July 16 Launch Amazon launches its online bookstore. 1997: May 15: Company: Amazon IPOs at $18.00/share, raising $54 million. [97] 1998: April 27: Acquisitions: Amazon acquires the Internet Movie Database, a comprehensive repository for movie information on the Internet. [98] 1998: August 5: Company Direction
The company, originally named Cadabra, was founded in the converted garage of Bezos's house for symbolic reasons and was renamed to Amazon in November 1994. [24] The Amazon website launched for public sales on July 16, 1995, and initially sourced its books directly from wholesalers and publishers.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
Founder and chairman of Amazon, founder of Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is the third richest person in the world. ... Bezos surpassed Tesla owner Elon Musk for the No ...
Musk is followed on the billionaires list by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - with a net worth of $243.7 billion, while Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is in the third spot with a net worth of $223.4 ...
Elon Musk’s net worth ... Behind his nearly $20 billion jump in wealth was a deal that shot up Musk’s rocket company SpaceX’s ... Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Musk’s record-breaking ...
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. He is also known for his ownership of X Corp. (the company that operates the social media platform X, formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI.
Elon Musk's net worth has eclipsed $400 billion. He's the first person to ever reach that mark — and he's gained $155 billion this year alone. ... Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, ... The company said ...