12 Interesting Facts About Amazon.
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in its early days, founder Jeff Bezos, along with his wife Mackenzie Bezos and his first employee, Shel Kaphan, used to meet at a local Barnes and Noble store.
Bezos first decided to call his website “Cadabra” but his lawyer advised against it, since it sounded too similar to “cadaver.”
Bezos was also briefly fixated on the name “Relentless” but then changed his mind. However, he did buy the domain relentless.com, which now redirects visitors to amazon.com.
Bezos initial research supported the idea that the most practical thing to sell on the internet was books, which is why he launched Amazon as a book-selling website.
Amazon sold its first book in 1995
Amazon developed its own street view in early 2000s.
They use Artificial intelligence to identify products and send you an automated bill on your Amazon account.
With smile.amazon.com, you can buy whatever you want, and Amazon will donate a small percentage of what you pay towards a charity of your choice – at no extra cost.
The world’s favourite reading tablet, the Kindle, was first made available to the public in 2007.
Amazon hires over a million and a quarter of employees across the globe – that’s more employees than Google, Alibaba and Meta combined!
Amazon also owns a number of subsidiaries, some of which are extremely popular –these companies include movie review website IMDb, Goodreads, Whole Foods, Audible, and the live streaming platform Twitch.
Amazon also has an affiliate program that lets influencers earn a small commission every time someone buys a product using their link
