Today is: Amazon sells its first book
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On July 16, 1995, Amazon.com sold its first book. The e-commerce website was founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos as an online bookstore. The first book sold by the Internet giant was Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought, by Douglas Hofstadter.
In the first two months of business, Amazon sold to all 50 states and over 45 countries. Within two months, Amazon s sales were up to $20,000 a week. The company continued to change and grow. The 2020 pandemic caused a surge in online shopping and resulted in shortages of household staples both online and in some brick-and-mortar stores. In 2020, the company hired approximately 175,000 additional warehouse workers and delivery contractors to deal with the surge.
Today is: Amazon sells its first book
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Amazon went from a Garage to $1.77T in 27 years. Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, Amazon! The company started twenty-seven years ago, in the garage of Jeff Bezos, and now it is an e-commerce titan
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Amazon has now turned 27. It is funny to think that the company started in the garage of Bezos’ house on Northeast 28th Street in Bellevue, Washington. The company was created back in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, and it has come a long way to become the e-commerce beast that we know and love today.
Jeff Bezos had other names in mind when he started Amazon.com. Bezos originally called the company Cadabra, but it had to be renamed because it sounded too similar to “cadaver.” He also had the idea of going for “Relentless,” but he finally decided on Amazon because of the exotic and different nature of the well-knowns South American river.