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
When there's uncertainty in the economy, people get very rational about their spending.
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
We'd like to thank Joe for his hard work and accomplishments over the last year. I believe he is making the right decision for him and his family under the circumstances. We all wish him the very best.
We see this as a win-win-win situation: good for readers, good for publishers and good for authors.
We think this is a win, win, win for publishers, authors and customers.
We think this is a big deal, ... If we can bring the world of books to customers, wherever they happen to be, that's a worthwhile thing to work on.
While free shipping is expensive for the company, it saves our customers tens of millions of dollars each quarter, and we plan to keep it in place indefinitely,
We have for five years now declined to predict when Amazon.com might be profitable ... and we are finally answering that question.
We will continue to invest in systems, people and product expansion, each of which helps us better serve customers, ... For the rest of 1999, we expect to invest more heavily than we have in the past.
We're trying to build the most customer-centric company in the world, ... I genuinely believe the balance of power online shifts away from the merchant toward the consumer.
We lowered prices so significantly over the last 15 months, there have been five significant price reductions,
I think the definition of a book is changing.
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,