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05/07/1994 Amazon company is founded by Jeff Bezos

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How Jeff Bezos Became the King of E-Commerce

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How Does Amazon Make Money?

25:04

Jeff Bezos Revealed: Building Amazon One Box at a Time

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Talking Innovation and Entrepreneurship with Amazon Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos interview on Starting Amazon (2001)

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos. The tech giant is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization, and second largest after Alibaba Group in terms of total sales.
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    • Annapurna Labs 

    • Beijing Century Joyo Courier Services 

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    • Health Navigator 

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    • Selling counterfeit, unsafe and discarded items 

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    • Comments by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders 

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    • Conflict of interest with the CIA and DOD 

    • Seattle head tax and houselessness services 

    • Nashville Operations Center of Excellence 

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    • Additional hiring as a result of pandemic 

    • Employee protests during COVID-19 

    • Closure in France 

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