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Amazon history

  • July 1994

    July 1994
    Jeff Bezos founded Amazon at just 30 years old in Bellevue, Washington. He wanted to call the attention of some websites like Cadabra.com and Cadaver.com, calling also the e-commerce.
  • May 1997

    May 1997
    On may 1997 Amazon was going public at just 18$ per share, or $1.96 when adjusted for splits.
    Today in 2021 the Amazon trading is at almost 960$ per share.
  • October 1998

    October 1998
    This is a very important date on Amazon, in this year Amazon was launche at Europe.
    - UK.
    - Germany.
  • November 2000

    November 2000
    In November from 2000, Amazon launches it's third party seller business, wich become his more huge moneymaker at the past of the years.
    Also Amazon change it's logo featuring an arrow shaped smile that starts at the "A" and points to the "z" to represent the site that sells everything from A to Z.
  • December 2003

    December 2003
    Amazon on December from 2003 has fully report it's first year of profit making a estimate huge cantity of $35.3 million.
  • Period: to

    Video of Amazon prime

  • February 2005

    February 2005
    In 2005 Amazon launches it's new form of making money, the famous Amazon prime but just in United States.
    Now it had more than 65 million of Prime members generating over 6 billion dollars per year
  • November 2009

    November 2009
    On 2009 it was like a type of special event because Amazon was competing with an other company or website that was named Zappos.com, the thing is that Amazon buy this company for the sume of 1.2B and has a free win.
  • February 2011

    February 2011
    Amazon starts making videos to it's premium suscription, they gained over more than 1 million people, also they start taking Netfix in there hands.
  • November 2014

    November 2014
    Amazon releases it's first echo speaker powered by Alexa, this echo speaker make a big hit on the world making big companies like Google to releases rivals of Alexa.
  • Period: to

    Alexa devices

  • November 2015

    November 2015
    Amazon finally opens it's first physical store, a book store ubicated on Village mall in Seattle, it was a library store.
  • December 2016

    December 2016
    Amazon finally got what they were searching for some years, a costume delivery. It take place on england, the drone carried popcorn and a Fire TV video streaming device for about 13 minutes.