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What began as a way to sell books in Jeff Bezos’ garage has transformed into a behemoth with a market cap of $2.3 trillion, making Bezos a billionaire and one of the world’s richest people.
In 1994, Jeff Bezos co-founded the future e-commerce behemoth Amazon in a Seattle garage. In an interview with Time magazine, the Amazon CEO revealed he gave himself a 30 percent chance that ...
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]
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 ...
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.
In 1994, Bezos left his job as a vice president at D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle, Washington, where he began to work on a business plan [6] for what would become Amazon.com. On July 5, 1994, Bezos initially incorporated the company in Washington state with the name Cadabra, Inc. [7] After a few months, he changed ...
In 1994, Jeff Bezos co-founded the future e-commerce behemoth Amazon in a Seattle garage. Previously employed by a Wall Street hedge fund, he quit his job to try his hand at building an online...
Amazon logo The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle. Amazon.com, Inc. is an American conglomerate headquartered in Seattle, Washington.Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [1]