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
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've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
We are very pleased with our acceleration in new customer acquisition. It took us 27 months to serve our first million customers, and less than six months to serve our second million.
We are very grateful to our customers for choosing Amazon.com as their online music store so quickly. We work hard to earn the confidence of our customers.
We've never tested and we never will test prices based on customer demographics, ... What we did was a random price test, and even that was a mistake because it created uncertainty for customers rather than simplifying their lives.
We continued to improve our customer experience during the quarter with the opening of our music store, our easier-to-navigate store layout, and our expansion into the local U.K. and German book markets. These initiatives will continue to require aggressive investment and entail significant execution challenges.
If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
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,
To our customers around the world--thank you. We are grateful to our customers for shopping with us this holiday season and we wish everyone a happy new year.
We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,
With this launch, our goal is to give customers the Amazon.com experience -- everything from one-click shopping and helpful information to the high level of customer service we traditionally provide -- in the two important categories of toys and electronics.
We get to move more units across that same fixed-cost structure. So it does help our business and help customers at the same time,
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts
Obsess over customers.