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The man is Jeff Bezos.
Amazon The king of e- commerce.
Amazon.com was founded by the founder.
The company was founded in 1995
Our vision is to be the world's most consumer-centered company, where customers can come to find anything they want to buy online.
Bezos is the second richest person in the world, behind Musk. William Shatner and Michael Strahan were sent to space on Blue Origin, but the former Amazon CEO came from humble beginnings.
Bezos father migrated to the United States from Cuba, which had a great impact on his son's entrepreneurial drive. At the Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Awards, Bezos honored his father, who spoke no English, and had to make his way. I think that every immigrant will have a deep optimism and resilience.
Bezos is a true American dream because he was the child of an immigrant. Continue scrolling for more information on how Bezos made Amazon what it is today.
Jeff Bezos, the former CEO of Amazon, was very successful in 1994. The young senior vice president at DE Shaw was already making six-figure salary and was destined to rise even further in the company ranks. Bezos had other plans.
Fueled by a secret passion for the business of electronic retailing, Bezos dreamed of creating his own company in the vast, then virtually unexplored wilds of the World Wide Web. It was a risky move, but it paid off quickly. Four years after Bezos created Amazon.com, the virtual bookstore became the template for how e- commerce businesses should be run, with sales of more than $610 million and 13 million customers worldwide.
In 1994 Bezos got the idea to start an Internet enterprise. D E Shaw was looking for new ventures to invest in when he came across a stat that World Wide Web usage was growing by 2,300 percent a month. Bezos began exploring the entrepreneurial possibilities of developing an Internet business after he realized the expansive possibilities of selling online.
He drew up a list of 20 products that he thought could sell well on the Internet. The sheer number of titles in existence made books the obvious choice after reviewing the list. Bezos realized that a virtual bookstore could offer millions of titles, even if it only had a few hundred thousand books. The die was cast. Bezos passed up a fat bonus, packed his wife, and their dog, and headed for Seattle.
Seattle was ideal for Bezos' new business. It was home to a tremendous pool of high-tech talent, and it was also close to the Oregon warehouse of Ingram Book Group. While MacKenzie drove, Jeff spent the trip working on a business plan on a laptop computer and calling potential investors on a cell phone. Bezos set up his business in the garage after raising $1 million from family and friends.
For nearly a year, Bezos and his team of five employees worked out of the garage, learning how to source books and set up a computer system that would make Amazon.com easy to navigate. A true marketing visionary, in addition to creating a user-friendly interface that would streamline the process of bookstore shopping, Bezos wanted to establish a virtual community where visitors could hang out.
In July 1995, Amazon.com opened its virtual doors and had more than 1 million titles to choose from. Amazon.com rocketed off the line because of word of mouth and e-mail. Internet users plugged Amazon.com on newsgroups and mailing lists because of the huge selection of books, superior customer service and user-friendly design.
By September 1996, Amazon.com had grown into a company with 100 employees and had racked up more than 15 million dollars in sales. More than 3,000 employees and $610 million in sales were achieved three years later.
Barnes & Noble quickly put up its own website after Amazon's success. Barnes & Noble embarked on an aggressive marketing campaign proclaiming that they offered twice as many books as Amazon. It was doomed to failure. The forward- thinking Bezos had already expanded Amazon's product line to include CDs and replaced Earth's Biggest Book Store with the slogan "Books, Music and More."
Amazon set its sights on conquering all of online retail, even though it has left its closest competitor in the dust. It was thought that Amazon controlled 37% of all online retail sales in 2019. In January 1999, Amazon bought a stake in Drugstore.com, a company that sells everything from breath mints to Viagra online. They have expanded their footprint in the healthcare world. Amazon acquired an online pharmacy. Also, Bezos launched Amazon Web Services providing on-demand cloud computing platforms, and he owns The Washington Post, among many other businesses.
After becoming executive chairman of the company in July 2021, the Amazon employee sold his entire 16 percent of the company's stock. His net worth is estimated to be $171 billion despite owning less than 10% of the company.
Prior to leaving his position as CEO, Bezos went through a very public divorce. In the settlement valued at $38 billion, 4 percent of Amazon was given to MacKenzie after 25 years of marriage. Since their split, the Amazon founder has been dating a woman named Lauren, while the Seattle school teacher has been married to a man named Dan Jewett.
With more time on his hands, Bezos is of course philanthropic thanks to his Bezos Family Foundation, however, he is still very much involved in the criticism wealthy corporations like his receive on the issue of corporate taxes.
You want to bring down inflation? Bezos replied to President Biden that raising corp taxes is fine to discuss. It's important to discuss inflation. It's just misdirection to have them together.
The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet, or maybe they need to form a new Non Sequitur Board instead. Raising corp taxes is fine to discuss. Taming inflation is critical to discuss. Mushing them together is just misdirection. https://t.co/ye4XiNNc2v
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) May 14, 2022
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