Amazon Research Paper

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Amazon.com is a electronic commerce company with its headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest internet company in the world. Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos , an American business magnet and investor. He is the chairman, CEO and president of the company. Amazon is a worldwide company with 132,600 employees working in it. They started as an online bookstore but soon expanded to variety of products like DVDs, CDs, apparels, software's, jewellery, Toys, Appstore, Game studios, Kindle, Instant Videos, Woot, MyHabit.com and more.

Jeff Bezos born on January 12, 1964 is really a technology entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce . Under his leadership Amazon.com became the largest retailer …show more content…

Even though he had a "well paying job", his dreams of being an entrepreneur is really appreciable and a lesson for all who want to emerge as a an entrepreneur. Jeff took a cross country drive from New York to Seattle writing up …show more content…

He already have a platform-Internet, now it's the commodity to sell. He reviewed the top 20 mail order business which will help him in trade through internet. Jeff found that Books where the commodity for which no mail order catalogue exist and really perfect for the internet. He searched and founded book wholesalers and started his venture. The business grew faster than anyone imagined and more products were launched thereafter. As the company grew further, it attracted more criticism and controversies from different sources over its action. These include poor working condition of employees , luring customers away from competitors, government lobbying ,sales and tax usages, faced accusation of putting under pressure on suppliers increase and maintain its profitability. But none of these affected the company's growth as Jeff never looked on to such controversies even though some are true. His only intention was his business success and he made

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