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Amazon.com
Amazon.com started when
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com left his job as vice-president of the
Wall Street firm D.E. Shaw, moved to Seattle, and began to work out a business
plan for what would become Amazon.com. After drew up a list of products that
could be sold on the internet and manage to narrow the list to five products which
are compact disc, books, videos, computer software and computer hardware. After
choosing Seattle as their headquarter due to its large high-tech work force and
its proximity to a large book distribution Centre in Oregon, Jeff Bezos the
started to raised funds for the company while also working with software
developers to build the company's website. The web site debuted in July 1995
and quickly became the number one book-related site on the Web.
After the web site debut the rest is history, in
the first two month of business. Amazon sold to all 50 states and
over 45 countries. The company now becomes largest internet-based retailer in United
States. Now the company had expand their business by diversified product
sell in their websites to DVDs, VHS, CD, videos and MP3
download/streaming, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture,
food, toys, and jeweler. Amazon’s employed approximately 154,100
full-time and part-time employees on December 31, 2014
“Our vision is to be earth’s
most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find
and discover anything they might want to buy online.”
CHRONOLOGY
Key Dates:
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1995: Amazon.com debuts on the Web.
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1997: The Company goes public; Amazon.com becomes the first
Internet retailer to customers. Secure one million
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1998: Amazon.com enters the online music and video business;
companies are acquired in the United Kingdom and Germany.
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1999: The firm expands into selling toys, electronics, tools, and
hardware; Bezos is named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year."
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2001: Amazon.com reports its first net profit during the fourth
quarter
This
is a table of Executive Officer in Amazon.com and if you want to know about organization
structure in Amazon you can just clink the link that we have provided: http://www.theofficialboard.com/org-chart/amazon-com
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NAME
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POSITION
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Jeffrey P. Bezos
Jeffrey M. Blackburn
Andrew R. Jassy
Diego Piacentini
Shelley L. Reynolds
Thomas J. Szkutak
Jeffrey A. Wilke
David A. Zapolsky
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President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the
Board
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Senior Vice President, Amazon Web Services
Senior Vice President, International Consumer Business
Vice President, Worldwide Controller & Principal
Accounting Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President, Consumer Business
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary
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Founder of AMAZON.COM
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| THIS IS JEFF BEZOS |
Amazon.com ( World Biggest Online Retailer Revealed)
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