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This Day In History: Amazon, the largest and best-known e-commerce site today opened its website for the first time on this day (July 15) in 1995. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, a year prior in 1994. Though originally starting out as a bookstore, Amazon is now one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The company has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", as well as the world's most valuable brand.
Amazon is known for its disruption of well-established industries through technological innovation and mass scale. It is the world's largest online marketplace, AI assistant provider, live-streaming platform and cloud computing platform. Amazon is the largest Internet company by revenue (Amazon is one of the few trillion-dollar companies in the world). It is the second largest private employer in the United States (Walmart is number one).
Amazon has a valuation of $1.6 trillion, which means it earns more money than 92% of countries of the world. Amazingly, Amazon had not made a profit for most of its history. Amazon's government contracts may have a lot to do with their wealth. There were years when Amazon paid no taxes.
Did you know: Amazon wasn't the original name Jeff Bezos came up with for his new company in the 90's. He originally wanted to name it Cadabra (like abracadabra) but it sounded too much like CADAVER when said out loud.
Amazon makes billions with AWS. Amazon Web Services is a cloud service operated by Amazon. It provides web hosting for businesses, including data storage, power, and IT resources. Many sites and apps we use every day run on AWS, including Lyft, Airbnb, Netflix and Spotify.
There are things you CANNOT buy on Amazon, like homes, cigarettes, live animals, and books that Amazon deems harmful (though Mein Kampf is still available on its site).
Amazon is a pet-friendly company. There are currently 6000 dogs working at their campus in Seattle.
The Amazon Prime streaming service has about 24,000 movies and over 2,100 shows to choose from. You can also rent or buy additional movies and TV episodes not included with your Prime subscription.
Wikipedia has a list of 108 companies that Amazon owns.
Jeff Bezos, as the richest man in the world, has a serious security detail. When he had a cameo in Star Trek Beyond, he had about nine bodyguards and three limos. "Bezos spends around $1.6 million a year on personal security. This amount may seem like a lot of money, but it is on the low end compared to what other tech CEOs spend on their security. There is evidence that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, spends up to $23 million a year on security. It has increased in recent years due to Zuckerberg’s continued unpopularity with the public."~Richard Martin
A suspected serial killer in South Carolina left some creepy reviews on Amazon. Todd Kohlhepp, who is linked to seven deaths, often left eerie reviews on Amazon, including one review for a shovel in which he wrote,“Keep in car for when you have to hide the bodies and you left the full size shovel at home.”
Amazon's intelligent personal assistant, Alexa, via Amazon's home Echo speaker, has witnessed several murders, and recordings have been handed over the law enforcement in the past.
See also: Amazon faces a lawsuit over missed lunch breaks.
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