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Amazon (company)
American multinational technology company
This article is about the multinational technology company. For other uses, see Amazon.
The Doppler building in Seattle, | |
Trade name | Amazon |
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| Formerly | Cadabra, Inc. (1994–1995) |
| Company type | Public |
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| ISIN | US0231351067 |
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| Founded | July 5, 1994; 30 years ago (1994-07-05), in Bellevue, Washington, U.S. |
| Founder | Jeff Bezos |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington and Arlington, Virginia ,U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Revenue | US$637.9 billion (2024) |
Operating income | US$68.59 billion (2024) |
Net income | US$59.25 billion (2024) |
| Total assets | US$624.9 billion (2024) |
| Total equity | US$285.9 billion (2024) |
| Owner | Jeff Bezos (8.92%) |
Number of employees | 1,556,000 (2024) |
| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | amazon.com |
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Amazon.com, Inc.,doing business asAmazon (, AM-ə-zon; , AM-ə-zən), is an American multinationaltechnology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, the company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories, referred to as "The Everything Store". Today, Amazon is considered one of the Big Five American technology companies, the other four being Alphabet,Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
The company has multiple subsidiaries, including Amazon Web Services, providing cloud computing; Zoox, a self-driving car division; Kuiper Systems, a satellite Internet provider; and Amazon Lab126, a computer hardware R&D “This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame.” - Forbes “The best book of the year, [ Moneyball] already feels like the most influential book on sports ever written. If you're a baseball fan, Moneyball is a must.” - People “Lewis has hit another one out of the park.... You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis's] thoughts about it.” - Janet Maslin, New York Times “Moneyball is the best business book Lewis has written. It may be the best business book anyone;has written.” - Mark Gerson, Weekly Standard “By playing Boswell to Beane's Samuel Johnson, Lewis has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books in years.” - Lawrence S. Ritter, New York Times Book Review “Ebullient, invigorating.... Provides plenty of action, both numerical and athletic, on the field and in the draft-day war room.” - Lev Grossman, Time “A journalistic tour de force.” - Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street Journal “Michael Lewis's beautiful obsession with the idea of value has once again yielded gold.... Moneyball explains baseball's startling new insight; that for all our dreams of blasts to the bleachers, the sport's hidden glory lies in not getting out.” - Garry Trudeau “I understood about one in four words of Moneyball, and it's still the best and most engrossing sports book I've read in years. If you know anything about baseball, you will enjoy it four times as much as I did, which means that you might explode.” - Nick Hornby, The BelieverEndorsements and Reviews
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In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30... more
In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. Nadia Odunayo never planned to take on the mighty global juggernaut that is Amazon, but for many book lovers, she has become the hero they didn’t know they needed. For 18 years, bibliophiles have been able to catalogue their reading, leave reviews and star ratings, and get recommendations for their next read on Goodreads, which was set up by two Stanford University alumni from California. In 2013, Goodreads’ founders sold it to Amazon, and the already hugely popular site skyrocketed. It now has an estimated 150 million users. One of those users, since 2012, was Odunayo, a software engineer and developer from London. Six years ago, she sat down to create what she imagined might be a companion app to Goodreads. After building a demo for a few friends, she quickly realised it was more likely to be a competitor, offering readers’ tracking tools and trends – using AI – that could help recommend their next book. And as of this week, The StoryGraph has 3.8 million active users, many of whom have ditched Goodreads. In a blogpost entitled “Leaving Goodreads in 2025!” just before Christmas, a blogger and reviewer going by the name Books With Bunny wrote: “I don’t love that Goodreads is owned by Amazon. There’s so much about the company that I don’t agree with … Goodreads feels outdated. Its interface looks clunky, and the features are limited … I’ve found Goodreads’ recommendations underwhelming and heavily skewed toward popular titles.” Bunny announced she would be using The StoryGraph going forward: “I’ve been loving it so far! Not only is it woman-owned, but it also offers so many fantastic features.” A Goodreads spokesperson said on Saturday that in 2024 it “welcomed m
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today.
But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business—a business that would be dynamic, different.
Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream—along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag grou ‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
I think people love the different types of data we give. We just have a lot of really cool features, and the buddy read-alongs. But I think the number one thing is that it’s just not owned by Amazon’
Nadia Odunayo