Tumultuous history.īy Steve Jurvetson (Flickr: Bezos’ Iconic Laugh) [CC-BY-2.0 ( )%5D, via Wikimedia CommonsMuch of the tumultuousness lies with Jeff Bezos himself who was relentlessly focused on one thing: delivering a great customer experience while scaling up product categories from books to music to toys to most anything imaginable. He left in 1994 and ended up a year later writing to a former associate to come join him in Seattle to help with a start up he was calling. Shaw as he conceives the idea of an online everything store at the dawn of the internet. Years later we meet him working as a highly successful hedge fund analyst for D. The story begins with a child prodigy who never knew his biological father until a few years ago. I guess I’m something of a poster child for “the everything store”.īrad Stone, a Bloomberg Businessweek writer covered Amazon from its beginnings and gives us a fascinating narrative of both the company and its founder based on insider interviews as well as his long relationship with Jeff Bezos. I’ve ordered everything from books to batteries for my car keys to rice cookers from their website. I have a library of e-books, many from Amazon on my Amazon Kindle.
When I’m writing about books, I sometimes link to their listing of the book. If nothing else, there are usually a few e-mails from them in my inbox. It is probably no exaggeration that hardly a day goes by without me having some contact with Amazon.
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