Today Amazon is known as 'the world's
largest on-line retailer'. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant sells
everything from apps to shoes, boast a video streaming service, has
their own brand of mobile devices and much more. 20 years ago this
month it was much different story when Jeff Bezos first started his
on-line bookstore in his garage.
The story
of Amazon actually started on the far away from Seattle. It was
1994 when a young vice president at the wall street investment firm
of Shaw & Co read a report on the future of the Internet. After
reading that report he had dreams of getting in on the growth of the
Internet and this new thing called the world wide web. So, he gave up
his position and went on a cross-country journey that end in the city
of Bellevue, Washington. It was there, in July of 1994, that Mr.
Bezos went on to realize his dream and start a business called
Cadabra. Once Mr. Bezos went to incorporate his business he changed
the name of the business to Amazon.
It wasn't long after Mr. Bezos started
his little company that he sold, Fluid
Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental
Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas
Hofstadter.
From those humble beginnings, as an on-line bookstore, the little
company known as Amazon started on its rapid growth. Soon Amazon
became more than a bookstore as that purchased other companies, such
as, Zappos.com, Drugstore.com, PlanetAll and many others. Then, there
were other additions, such as, the Prime Network, e-readers, a
computer tablet and the most recently Amazon's first smartphone.
The journey wasn't always easy as other
companies, contractors and others have had their battle's with the
Seattle-based company. Eventually, Amazon has made through with a few
bumps and bruises.
So, this month we celebrate the 20th
birthday of the company that grew from that little start-up book
retailer to 'the world's largest on-line retailer'. Hears to you
Amazon on your 20th birthday.
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