Jeff Bezos

This store is an electronic commerce and cloud computing company. It was founded on July 5, 1994 by Jeff Bezos. The CEO of Amazon is also Jeff Bezos. The headquarters of this online store is in Seattle, Washington. This company first started as a bookstore and then became more popular which caused other companies to go bankrupt. By 2011, Amazon was selling more printed books…

huge online based retailer. Amazon has a big hand in market capitalization and in total sales but Amazon wasn 't amazon when it got launched first, "Cadabra" was the real name of the online website begun by Jeff Bezos and following this after a year in 1995 they launched Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos, He loved reading books. This is where he got an idea to launch an online book-store and later started selling DVD, Blue-rays, MP3, Electronics, Audio-books and videos. And later on the company was growing…

websites, find whatever good they wish to purchase and the price is right next to the product. If they wish to purchase the product, they can provide their credit card information and get charged or find another product. As the “Prophet of No Profit”, Bezos said “Amazon isn’t a charity; it’s a business—a business whose strategy is to make its customers as happy as possible” (Yglesias 2014). Even though the business is lacking profitability, however the investors are continuing have their money…

In an NPR interview in the mid-1990s, Jeff Bezos was asked what his favorite fish was. Bezos answered, “Piranha” (NPR, 2017). This seems to be a perfect metaphor on how the company runs not only externally, with its competitors, but internally, with its employees. Goals set for employees are extremely high, causing…

Netflix is one of the most popular companies in the world. The creator and CEO, Reed Hastings, founded the company in 1998 after he was charged with a $40 late fee for an overdue rental from Blockbusters (Lipscombe-Southwell). In the year 2000 as his company started to slowly grow, he offered Blockbuster 45% of Netflix to help the company grow and broaden their horizons, but Blockbuster turned him down. By 2005 Netflix gained 4.5 million subscribers beating any other online movie rental company…

benefited from each other. I think the conflicts between publishers and Amazon come from different views on the concept and value of books. Publishers see books as premium products, with good quality finishing and a matching price. On the other hand, Jeff Bezos thinks books should be available to the largest possible number of readers, and to do that you need a large distribution platform with small marginal costs and wide reach, hence the digital channel. Personally, I tend to favor the latter…

a grown man covering his face," he also says," nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk." From these statements alone it is found that Amazon is not a happy place to work. Although, as soon as Jeff Bezos took notice of this article, he had something else to say. Mr. Bezos shockingly had denied what was confronted in these articles. The truth behind these controversies is left unknown to what kind of company Amazon actually is. What we do know about Amazon is that…

Picture you are on Earth 5 billion years into the future. The sun is closing in on Earth and the Earth is burning up. What are you going to do? This is why it is so important to explore space, because humans could go extinct if we don’t find another planet to colonize on before the sun swallows Earth. Also, space has helped us learn about the moon and even Earth. I take the position that we should explore outer space instead of exploring underwater because eventually we will have to evacuate…

In “SpaceX VS. Blue Origin” the author, Austin Carr, is writing about the rivalries between the businesses of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the aerospace firm Blue Origin. Carr discusses their contributions to spaceflight, competition between the companies to recruit best engineers and to make history, and the construction of reusable rockets. Carr concludes his article by telling his readers who he thinks is winning the modern space race. Carr does an excellent job writing about…

to automotive parts. But, this remarkable company was not this diverse in it’s sells. When Amazon was first founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995, it was only a site where you could could buy books. Founder Jeff Bezos had imagined that the company would have explosive growth and e-commerce (commercial transactions conducted electronically on the internet). Well as we can obviously see Jeff had imagined correctly. Two years of Amazon was founded, it became the very first internet retailer to secure one…