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Amazon opened up as a bookstore.
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Amazon goes public at $18.
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Amazon’s demand kept growing so more facilities needed to be built.
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They started selling music depending on how the customer felt.
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Amazon issued the 1 click patent so customers could purchase items with just a click.
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Amazon starts offering more than just books etc.
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Fifteen years later, Amazon Web Services dominates cloud hosting and is one of the company's biggest revenue drivers.
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Amazon pays $75 million to buy Joyo, the largest online seller of books and electronics in the growing Chinese market.
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Now, with more than 100 million members worldwide, Prime is considered one of Amazon's most valuable assets.
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Just as the holiday shopping season is about kick into full gear, Amazon unveils its Kindle.
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Amazon pays $300 million for Audible, which comes with a library of 80,000 programs in the United States and Europe.
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Amazon buys online shoe retailer Zappos in an all-stock deal worth nearly $900 million.
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Amazon buys Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts-based maker of warehouse robots, for $775 million.
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Bezos says he will pay $250 million of his own money for the financially struggling Washington Post.
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Amazon enters the smartphone market with its Fire phone, which integrated with Amazon's universe of media streaming options.
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After being blamed for the decline of independent bookstores across the country, Amazon opens its own physical retail location in Seattle.
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After struggling for years in the intensely competitive grocery delivery business, Amazon ups the ante and purchases Whole Foods' 471 stores for $13.7 billion.
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Amazon's stock price rises enough to make the company briefly worth $1 trillion.
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Amazon has 647,500 employees, occupies 288.4 million square feet of real estate, and accounts for nearly half of online retail in the United States.
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