The Story of Amazon

From a garage bookstore to a $2.7 trillion everything store.

1994

Jeff Bezos wrote the plan on a drive from New York to Seattle.

Get Big Fast

He refused to show a profit for years, plowing everything into growth.

The dot-com crash

The stock fell more than 90%, but Amazon survived.

The secret weapon

AWS, a cloud “side project,” became its real profit engine.

Today

Amazon is one of the most valuable companies on Earth.

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