Jeff Bezos was a 30 year old employee on Wall Street. As the years started to approach 2000, the internet was expanding rapidly, and Bezos took notice of that. He quit his job and soon started to look for internet revenue. His first internet business, called Cadabra at the time, was to sell books. [2] The idea was innovative, to be one of the first e-commerce companies out there that sold cheap discounted books. Orders started to trickle in slowly until one of the founders of Yahoo, a big company at the time, wanted to display it on it one of their pages. The beginning and middle of the first week netted Bezos’s group $846, but by the end of that week they had received around $12,000 in orders. [3] Amazon is just another example of a technological innovation that took the world by storm. Bezos and his company listened to many complaints while also keeping their original view on board. As Bezos’s company started to adapt to more customer wants and needs, he started to also expand his online market. [3] Amazon started to sell computers, cell phones, anything that could be packaged and shipped. What was at first an online book store, transformed as consumers wanted more than just books. The site accompanied many people’s wants for cheaper items that are not accessible in their area. People that wanted to buy a certain pair of headphones only sold at a specific store could now purchase the headphones on Amazon. Nowadays young and old people all order from Amazon to have access to products that usually aren’t accessible to them. This is just another example on how a small innovative concept, through time, changed into a giant business. The trend seems so far to be that people have an idea, something at the time is not known or feasible to the public. That one small design grows into an adaptable and ever-growing product. These ideas are innovative, but they also have one more characteristic. They have
Jeff Bezos was a 30 year old employee on Wall Street. As the years started to approach 2000, the internet was expanding rapidly, and Bezos took notice of that. He quit his job and soon started to look for internet revenue. His first internet business, called Cadabra at the time, was to sell books. [2] The idea was innovative, to be one of the first e-commerce companies out there that sold cheap discounted books. Orders started to trickle in slowly until one of the founders of Yahoo, a big company at the time, wanted to display it on it one of their pages. The beginning and middle of the first week netted Bezos’s group $846, but by the end of that week they had received around $12,000 in orders. [3] Amazon is just another example of a technological innovation that took the world by storm. Bezos and his company listened to many complaints while also keeping their original view on board. As Bezos’s company started to adapt to more customer wants and needs, he started to also expand his online market. [3] Amazon started to sell computers, cell phones, anything that could be packaged and shipped. What was at first an online book store, transformed as consumers wanted more than just books. The site accompanied many people’s wants for cheaper items that are not accessible in their area. People that wanted to buy a certain pair of headphones only sold at a specific store could now purchase the headphones on Amazon. Nowadays young and old people all order from Amazon to have access to products that usually aren’t accessible to them. This is just another example on how a small innovative concept, through time, changed into a giant business. The trend seems so far to be that people have an idea, something at the time is not known or feasible to the public. That one small design grows into an adaptable and ever-growing product. These ideas are innovative, but they also have one more characteristic. They have