Amazon.com: The E-commerce Revolution

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Amazon.com

Taking the e-commerce market by storm, Amazon.com was founded in 1994 (Amazon.com). Bringing the company to life was Princeton engineering graduate Jeff Bezos. He first thought of the idea to create Amazon.com when he was simply searcing the internet. He first worked as an investment banker D.E. Shaw & Co. where he was looking for investment opportunities for the company. surprisingly, he found that the internet was growing over 2,000 percent per month (“Jeff Bezos the King of E-Commerce”). He saw this as a massive opportunity and decided to start Amazon.com to first sell books. Amazingly, Amazon.com now has over 232 million products for sale for United States residents including electronics, clothing, and their own movie streaming …show more content…

This mission statement reflects Amazon’s beliefs that they are interested in growth and helping people in their daily lives. In the future, Amazon wants to continue to offer their services with even more products and shipping locations. In addition, they are starting to expand on their own endeavours such as Amazon Prime video and their Kindle line. The mission statement matches the public’s view of the company in many ways. Most of the public views Amazon.com as one of if not the biggest online retailer. Their goal is to have anything a person could want on their website. This is true for the most part as I, personally, use Amazon more than any other website for online shopping. The image that Amazon presents is that they are a growing, and competitive company. They are constantly releasing new products and services that show the public that they are interested in growing. Amazon is named after the Amazon River. The Amazon River is the largest river in South America and is one of the largest in the world. It discharges the highest volume of water out of any river in the world (Britannica). Amazon’s image reflects this because as the Amazon River moves many gallons of water, Amazon.com sells an immense amount of products every year. In Amazon 's logo the arrow begins under the “a” and ends under the “z”. This indirectly implies that the company sells anything from a to z online

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