Amazon.Com is a leading online retailer company, offering many different items such as books, music, DVDs, videos, toys, electronics, software, video games and home improvement products. They have an estimated 22.5 million customers in 150 different countries. Amazon was founded in July 1995 by Jeff Bezos in the state of Washington. Jeff Bezos now 37 years old, received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. His professional career started at Bankers Trust Company in 1988, where he became Vice President in February 1990. At the end of the same year he moved to D.E. Shaw & Co. a Wall Street investment firm and he became a Senior Vice President in 1992.
When internet business first started, Jeff noticed an important opportunity on the online commerce. He made a list of possible products that could be sold on line, including books, magazines, music, and many other items and finally he decided to start selling books. The......
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