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Happy Birthday Amazon

happy birthday amazón Amazon celebrates its 20th birthday this July. It has been quite the 20 years for the online retailer. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, Amazon has grown to be a Fortune 100 company. Amazon Mission Founder & CEO "To be Earth's most customer-centric Jeff Bezos company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices" What can you buy on Amazon? Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished, and used items in categories such as books; movies; music & games; digital downloads; electronics & computers; home & garden; toys; kids & baby; grocery; apparel; shoes & jewelry; health & beauty; sports & outdoor; and tools, auto & industrial. *** IN THE BEGINNING *** * Bezos first called the company "Cadabra". This ran into problems because people didn't understand the word * Mackenzie (Bezos' wife) and Bezos also registered www.relentless.com which still redirects to Amazon The Marketplace In 2000, Amazon.com began to offer its best-of-breed e-commerce platform to other retailers and to individual sellers. * In the end, Bezos found the name "Amazon" by looking through the A's in a dictionary in October 1994, and was struck by the resonance between the planet's largest river and its largest bookstore. * In Seattle, Bezos and his first employee, Shel Kaphan, built Amazon.com in a garage with a potbellied stove. Welcome to Amazon.com Books! * The site went online July 16th, 1995 One million titles, consistently low prices amazon.com * They built the site around the huge digital catalogs book distributors started using in the 1980s. (f you eaplore just one thing, make it our perronal noication service. We thank t's very cool) SPOTLIGHT!-- AGUST 16TH These are the books we love, ofered at Amazon com low prices The spothght mover EVERY day so please come often Original Amazon website in ONF MILLION TITLES Search Amatoa coen's mien tle catalog by author, sabject, tle, keyword, and more. Or take a look at the books we recormend in over 20 categories Check out our curtomes revrwi nd the award wetFom 30% of the pubishers kat. EYES & EDITORS, A PFRSONAL NOTIFICATION SERVICE r from the Hago and Nebula to the Puitzer and Nobel and bestselers are Lke to know whben that book you want comes out n paperback or when your favorte author 1995 AMAZON.COM INC (NASDAQ:AMZN) Amazing Success Story by Amazon AMAZON ACQUISITIONS Amazon has made many acquisitions over the years, here are some of the most notable 1998 junglee Launch Initial Share Price Today $16 May 1997 $327.24 (23d June 2014) Junglee Corporation $1.6 million shares of stock (valued at $190m) SHAREHOLDERS 38.65% 29.12% 19.05% 1999 a Alexa Mutual Fund Holders Other Institutional Individual Stakeholders Alexa Internet, Exchange.com, and Accept.com for a combined $645m MARKET CAPITALISATION $151.7 BILLION Amazon survived the 'dot-com' crash for two reasons 2008 audible Audible.com for $300m Users kept coming to the site in bigger numbers Bezos never promised shareholders anything but a long-term vision 2009 Zappos acom o Zappos for a total deal worth $928m $300 $16 $12 $200 2012 KIVA Systems. Kiva Systems Inc. for $775m $100 $4 2013 The Washington Post Q2 1997 Q2 2013 Washington Post for $250m Share Price OSales, Q2 of each year DATA COMPILED BY BLOOMBERG Sold Out in amazonkindle 52 HOURS BY 2013 AN ESTIMATED 20 MILLION ÉH11 E080 OUT OF STOCK KINDLE DEVICES WERE SOLD (EST. $3.9 BILLION IN REVENUE) Out of Stock until late April 2008 Launched in November 2007 Estimated to earn $265 million to $530 million a year from e-books alone On Cyber Monday 2013, 36.8 million items were ordered on Amazon worldwide $75 billion in annual revenue $140 billion market value AMAZON STAFF TOP EXECUTIVES Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey P. Bezos Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President Thomas J. Szkutak Senior Vice President Steven R. Kessel Secretary, Vice President & General Counsel David A. Zapolsky Chief Accounting Officer, VP & Controller Shelley L. Reynolds EMPLOYEE NUMBERS 2013 117K 2012 M88 2011 56K 2010 34K 2009 24K OK 25K 50K 75K 100K 125K INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT JEFF BEZOS & AMAZON Jeff Bezos was born in 1964 to His biological father was one of 19-year-old year old Jackie Bezos and 20-year-old Mike Bezos, an adopted father After college, Bezos became employee number 11 at a start-up called Fitel Albuquerque's leading unicyclists BARNES&NOBIE He eventually married an office-mate named Mackenzie. She's now a Jeff and Amazon's first freight contracts were negotiated at a local Barnes & Noble Bookstore In 2003, Jeff Bezos almost died in a helicopter crash novelist and mother to 4 Mackenzie Bezos left a 1 star review on the everything store an unofficial book "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon" Amazon about her husband's business JEFF BEZOS AND THE AGE OF AMAZON BRAD STONE October 15, 2013 by Brad Stone INTERESTING QUOTES FROM JEFF BEZOS "A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last." / On Complacency "I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out." "If you're competitor- focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering." / On Progress / On Innovation "If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve." / On Pivoting "We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with "If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new." for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient." / On Strategy / On Haters "There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second." Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit. / Amazon's Leadership Principles / On Pricing a, FIVE STRATEGIES THE FUTURE FIVE STRATEGIES JEFF BEZOS USED TO BUILD AMAZON FOR AMAZON Amazon Pantry Supposedly will be offered to the company's Amazon Prime customers, who pay a fee of $75 per year for unlimited two-day shipping on over 2,000 grocery products such as pet food, cleaning supplies and cereal. PrimePantry Launch Date Sometime in 2014 Be like the Godfather: Make them an offer they can't refuse Amazon Fresh Residents of Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco can already get more than 500,000 items delivered including bakery goods, meat and fish along with take-out meals from local restaurants. amaz n LYFE Launch Date Already launched in select areas of the USA Don't give up information unless absolutely necessary Amazon Drones (aka Amazon Prime Air) Arguably the biggest Amazon news in 2013. Bezos has laid out a vision of Amazon packages being delivered by armadas of drones. Pricing and Aviation regulation are still huge stumbling blocks. amazonedir Launch Date 2017 or 2018 Keep teams small enough that members can be fed with two pizzas Amazon 'Fire Phone' The Amazon Fire phone has 3D gesture input and eye tracking input. A year of free Prime membership also included. Launch Date Wednesday 18th June 2014 Stop talking so much Blue Origin Since childhood, Bezos has wanted to establish a permanent human colony in space. He established Blue Origin, a company that plans to make private space travel more widely available. 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Happy Birthday Amazon

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Amazon is 20 years old this month which is a major milestone for the online marketplace.

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