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Amazon also offers the Amazon Kindle for people to purchase their books as eBooks, and by 2010, more people buy ebooks than physical books from Amazon. 2011–2015: Amazon starts offering streaming services like Amazon Music and Amazon Video. By 2015, its market capitalization surpassed that of Walmart.
Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos after he relocated from New York City to Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle, to operate an online bookstore. Bezos chose the Seattle area for its abundance of technical talent from Microsoft and the University of Washington , as well as its smaller population for sales tax purposes and the ...
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.
Miguel Ángel "Mike" [1] Bezos Pérez (born () September 29, 1945) is a Cuban-American billionaire and philanthropist who provided the initial investment to launch Amazon.com. He is a co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation. He is the adoptive father of Jeff Bezos, the father of Mark Bezos and the husband of Jackie Bezos.
In 1995, Jacklyn and Miguel loaned Jeff US$245,573 to start Amazon.com, [11] giving them both 6% equity. [12] Later they relocated to Florida. [5] Jacklyn and her husband are co-founders of, [13] and major donors to, the Bezos Family Foundation. [14] Through the foundation, they donated $710.5 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. [15]
In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in his garage in Seattle. On Jan. 12, he celebrated his 57th birthday as one of the richest people in the world with a personal fortune estimated at more than ...
Memphis was founded on May 22, 1819 by a group of investors, John Overton, James Winchester, and Andrew Jackson, [15] [16] and was incorporated as a city in 1826. [17] The city was named after the ancient capital of Egypt on the Nile River , itself named Memphis in Greek after the Egyptian name Mennefer for the Pyramid complex of pharaoh Pepi I ...
Jeff Bezos learned a few things about leadership and human nature while transforming Amazon from a startup he founded nearly 30 years ago into the tech juggernaut it is today, with a market cap of ...