Amazon: History And Current State

On the 48th episode of Zemach FM, we are discussing the Amazon profile. We take a look at how the company was founded, who the founders were how the company grew to its current state and what products Amazon owns currently.

Episode Timeline

03:20 Episode introduction

04:36 How was Amazon Founded and the backstory of Jeff Bezos.

06:18 The Risk minimization framework and the founding of Amazon

08:05 Initial names of Amazon

10:20 The reason behind naming the company Amazon

11:30 Starting with an online book store and getting over the criticism

12:30 Some growth stats from the early days of Amazon

14:30 Expanding to different domains including Cloud services

16:00 The kindle e-book reader.

17:00 Some companies acquired by Amazon.

20:10 Some known products of Amazon.

21:10 The Amazon Prime service.

23:00 Hardware products from Amazon

24:20 The AWS (Amazon Web Services)

28:30 The Alexa service

30:00 Other brands acquired by Amazon.

34:00 Step Down of Jeff Bezos from Amazon.

39:20 Amazon Employee treatments

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