No. 013 · 1994 · Bellevue

Amazon

Quit Wall Street. Typed the plan in a moving car.

Now also your server

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  1. 1 1994. A Wall Street exec sees the web growing.
  2. 2 He quits. She drives. He types the business plan.
  3. 3 Start with a garage.
  4. 4 The desks are literally doors.
  5. 5 A bell rings for every order.
  6. 6 Within weeks, the bell has to go.
  7. 7 Books. Then everything.
  8. 8 Turns out the real store was the servers.
Founders
Jeff Bezos
Founded
1994, Bellevue
What they do
Online retail, Prime and AWS.

The story

Bezos left a Wall Street job after seeing how fast the web was growing, and started with books out of a garage near Seattle. Years later it launched AWS, renting out computing infrastructure, and that became one of the most profitable businesses in tech.