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
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'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.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.
Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.
Work hard, have fun and make history.
In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere,
We lowered prices so significantly over the last 15 months, there have been five significant price reductions,
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 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 feel strongly that copyright holders should get to make these decisions.