Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Amazon.com

Typing up a business plan while trekking out to Seattle, Jeff Bezos starts up Amazon.com in 1994, and launches the book selling website in July 1995. Bezos and his team keep working with the site. They pioneer features that now seem mundane, such as one-click shopping, customer reviews, and e-mail order verification. The company eventually goes public in 1997, expanding well beyond books.
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