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Bezos founded Amazon in mid-1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence .
Amazon.com, Inc., [1] doing business as Amazon (/ ˈ æ m ə z ɒ n /, AM-ə-zon; UK also / ˈ æ m ə z ə n /, AM-ə-zən), is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. [5]
According to a 2019 study by IGN based on published data and interviews with publishers and developers, this is nearly 30% for the personal computer storefronts, including Steam, GOG.com and Microsoft, for console services for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, for mobile app stores including App Store and Google Play.
Bezos Went Public. In 1997, just three years after founding Amazon as an online seller of books and music, Bezos took his company public. The move required Bezos to forfeit control, answer to ...
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Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, [3] on July 5, 1994. Initially an online marketplace for books, it has expanded into a multitude of product categories: a strategy that has earned it the moniker "the everything store". [4]
At Amazon, Clark was often named as a possible successor to founder Jeff Bezos. But he was ultimately passed over for Andy Jassy, who had led Amazon’s cloud division before ascending to the top ...