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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.
Amazon opened its first physical retail store, a bookstore in the University Village shopping center in Seattle. The store, known as Amazon Books, has prices matched to those found on the Amazon website and integrate online reviews into the store's shelves. [144] 2015: December 14: Company
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [51] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [52] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
Thomas Austin Alberg (February 12, 1940 – August 5, 2022) [1] was an American lawyer and businessman, founder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group, and a director of Amazon.com from 1996 to 2019. In addition to investing in many high tech startups, he was one of the earliest investors in Amazon. [2]
In 1996, Covey joined Amazon, shortly becoming the CFO and then Chief Strategy Officer and raising over $500 million for the company. [5] In 1999 she was #28 on Fortune magazine's list of "Most Powerful Women in Business" [7] [8] She left Amazon voluntarily in 2000, it was said that she "was tired of frenetic internet life".
On November 28–29, 2021, two workers allegedly died within hours of one another. The first employee suffered a stroke on the site in a trailer shortly after his request; his body was discovered 20 minutes later. The second worker was found in a bathroom of the warehouse and transported to a hospital where they were pronounced dead. [1]
Jacklyn Bezos (née Gise, formerly Jorgensen; born December 29, 1946) is an American billionaire and philanthropist who provided the initial investment to launch Amazon.com. She is a co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation. She is the mother of Jeff Bezos and Mark Bezos, and the ex-wife of Ted Jorgensen.
MacKenzie Scott (née Tuttle, formerly Bezos; born April 7, 1970) [1] [2] is an American novelist, philanthropist, co-founder of Amazon and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos.As of December 2024, she has a net worth of US$42.1 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index; owning a 4% stake in Amazon.