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  2. History of Amazon - Wikipedia

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    Company Amazon began search for Amazon HQ2, a second company headquarters to house up to 50,000 employees. [149] [150] 2018 January 18 Company Amazon narrows down the choices of its second headquarters location to 20 places. [151] 2018 January 22 Company Amazon opens a cashier-less grocery store to the public. [152] 2018 September 19

  3. Jeff Bezos - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. How Jeff Bezos Built Amazon Into What It Is Today - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Andy Jassy - Wikipedia

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    Andrew R. Jassy (born January 13, 1968) [5] is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer of Amazon.Before being appointed by Jeff Bezos and the Amazon board during the fourth quarter of 2020, [6] [7] Jassy had been the SVP and CEO of Amazon Web Services from 2003 to 2021.

  7. List of mergers and acquisitions by Amazon - Wikipedia

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    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] The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to grow quickly, making its first three acquisitions on April 27, 1998, less than a year after the company had gone public. [2]

  8. Tom Alberg - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Ram Shriram - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] He worked earlier in Amazon. Shriram came to Amazon.com in August 1998, when the company acquired Junglee , an online comparison shopping firm of which Shriram was president. Before Junglee and Amazon, Shriram was a member of the Netscape executive team, joining them in 1994, before they shipped products or posted revenue.