Amazon.com is a U.S. e-commerce company based in Seattle, Washigton. It was one of the first major companies to sell books over the Internet.
Jeffrey Bezos, 34, founded in 1995 in Seattle to Amazon.com an online book trade.
Jeffrey Bezos was born on January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Princeton. In 1986 he began working in a company where he optical fiber to vice president. After 1990-1994 worked at a Wall Street firm, DE Shaw and Co.
In 1994, Jeff Bezos quit his job and told his wife that package up. They took the car, laptop and your dog and stopped in Seattle. They rented a house and created the world's largest bookstore: Amazon.
Amazon.com whose name is inspired by Amazon, the world's longest river.
The first website Amazon.com opened on July 16, 1995, immediately inciándose exponential growth of the company and its online presence. After 30 days of leaving the network Amazon.com without media promotion, Amazon.com was selling books in all 50 U.S. states and in 45 countries.
In 1996, the site had more than 2,000 visitors a day. A year later had multiplied by 25. Just a year ago, in December 1999, Time magazine named Jeff Bezos Person of the Year and hailed as "the king of e".
Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, soon diversified into different product lines, adding DVDs, music CDs, sotware, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food and more. But Bezos still has a supreme aspiration, a new vision: to be the largest store in the world.
