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Amazon Toys Team employees during a summer Amazon party with Jeff Bezos wearing a black shirt, c. 2000 The (new) Day 1 building in Seattle. Since June 19, 2000, Amazon's logotype has featured a curved arrow leading from A to Z, representing that the company carries every product from A to Z, with the arrow shaped like a smile. [25]
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.
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.
Some have become entrepreneurs while others joined other companies, but after Amazon got its start, here's what its first employees are up to now.
Musk is followed on the billionaires list by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - with a net worth of $243.7 billion, while Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is in the third spot with a net worth of $223.4 ...
Musk joined Tesla as a venture capital backer and co-founder in 2003. Tesla ’s first car was the roadster, and the company spent several years dominating the EV market, although it has recently ...
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and political figure known for his key roles in the automotive company Tesla, Inc. and the space company SpaceX. He is also known for his ownership of X Corp. (the company that operates the social media platform X , formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding ...
Jeff Bezos gave himself a salary of just over $80,000 at Amazon, he revealed to The New York Times.But he was able to make much more off of his stock holdings. Currently worth $246 billion, Jeff ...