Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezosis an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He has played a role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 January 1964
CityAlbuquerque, NM
CountryUnited States of America
Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing Search Inside the Book technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books.
Amazon employees bought a lot of cool stuff as part of the beta program.
Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
Amazon.com is still a small and young company relative to many offline retailers, and we must ensure that we build the strongest customer relationships possible during this critical period, ... In 1999, we expect to invest even more aggressively than we have in the past.
The most aggressive of them all was to make shipping free for orders over $25, ... So $25 is a very low hurdle for customers to cross -- almost every order can qualify.
A year from now Barnes & Noble won't even consider us a direct competitor, ... What we're trying to do is invent the future of e-commerce.
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This partnership will have the effect of significantly expanding our reach,
This is an incredible and humbling honor. The Internet holds the promise to improve lives and empower people. I feel very lucky to be involved in this time of rapid and amazing change.
This is the cheapest and easiest way to have an Internet (sales) strategy. This solves all the problems. We charge the customer's credit card and deposit the money directly into your bank account.
I think the definition of a book is changing.
I think there's no question that there is going to be an accelerating consolidation and that's very, very healthy for this industry, ... In the past, if you look at what ideas have gotten funded, basically all ideas gave gotten funded -- good ideas and bad ideas in the previous climate.
Our vision first and foremost is to be the Earth's most customer-centric company and then, within that, to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything and everything that they might want to buy online,
This was our fastest sequential growth as a public company, and we are grateful that so many customers chose Amazon.com for such a broad range of products,