Amazon

Introduction This startup story features Jeffrey P. Bezos, the innovative founder of Amazon. The company, which now generates over $61 Billion in Revenue and holds the title as the world’s largest  online retailer, was started out of Bezos’s garage at 30 years old. Amazon Stats: Industry: Online Retailing Annual Revenue: $61.09 Billion # of Employees: …

Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his parents’ garage in 1994, when everyone thought the internet was a fad. Here are five reasons Jeff Bezos was so successful

Shel Kaphan was the first employee; there was an interview with him in GeekWire: Meet Amazon.com's first employee: Shel Kaphan. In that interview Shel says that Paul Davis was the second technical hire. Shel tells about the early days of building ...

Amazon got its start in 1995 and has grown into one of the world's most valuable companies. Here are some things you likely don't know about its early days.

Amazon's founder and CEO walked away from a highly lucrative job on Wall Street after reading a report about the rapid growth of the internet. Here is why he did it.

Amazon's founder described his quirky interview question, and why he asked applicants for their SAT scores.

Explore Jeff Bezos biography. Enjoy reading an amazing success story and history of Amazon and Blue Origin.

On Friday afternoon, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos briefly passed Warren Buffett to become the world’s third-richest person. Amazon shares have been up 54% since February, propping up his net worth to an impressive $65 billion.

Jeff Bezos is an American online retail pioneer and tycoon, with a net worth of $58.8 billion in November of 2015, according to Forbes. As founder and CEO of Amazon.com, he changed the way Americans buy books, which quickly expanded to the way they purchase all manner of consumer goods.

"I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online." In 1994, Jeff Bezos was a 30-year-old vice president of a New York investment firm, newly married, with a secure and prosperous future ahead of him. He decided to give it all up and drive to Seattle with his wife, in a used car, to start a business in their garage. He was betting his own savings — and his parents' and friends' — on a totally untried notion: that people would buy books through a little-known network of computers called the Internet. Jeff Bezos was convinced that this global network, primarily the domain of academics and government scientists, could become a vibrant new venue for commerce, with the right product and the right plan. Almost overnight, the company Bezos started, Amazon.com, changed the book-buying habits of a nation. Bezos and his investors found their shares in the company worth billions. As the company's capitalization soared, Bezos embarked on a risky strategy of expansion, forgoing immediate profits to secure an ever-larger share of the Internet market, not only in books, but in music, videos, electronics, toys and clothing. At the turn of the 21st century, the Internet bubble burst, and fortunes seemingly made overnight literally vanished. Yet Amazon flowed on like its mighty namesake, still expanding, but also showing profits, while other promising start-ups faded from the scene. Once-daunting competitors had become grateful partners.  By the summer of 2018, the Amazon founder's net worth was estimated at $150 billion, by far the largest personal fortune in the world.  The vision of Jeff Bezos had prevailed, and the world of commerce had changed forever.

How Amazon's Jeff Bezos Created a $280 Billion Empire, recent article from Maxim Magazine May 2016. In the face of constant skepticism, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos patiently and persistently stuck to his plan - and created a $280 billion empire.