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 feel strongly that copyright holders should get to make these decisions.
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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.
For the fifth consecutive quarter, we saw substantial improvements in our operations and bottom-line performance, ... Electronics demonstrated especially strong growth and improvements.
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This single individual completely changed something. That's the kind of thing people can do anywhere. They can do it in Seattle; they can do it in North Dakota.
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