Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezosis an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He has played a role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 January 1964
CityAlbuquerque, NM
CountryUnited States of America
We're standing behind the transaction with our own pocketbook,
To our customers around the world--thank you. We are grateful to our customers for shopping with us this holiday season and we wish everyone a happy new year.
Ultimately publishers and copyright holders will get to make those decisions about how much those pages cost,
We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,
When there's uncertainty in the economy, people get very rational about their spending.
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
With this launch, our goal is to give customers the Amazon.com experience -- everything from one-click shopping and helpful information to the high level of customer service we traditionally provide -- in the two important categories of toys and electronics.
It's part of the territory with Internet stocks, that kind of volatility. It can be up 30 percent one month, it can be down 30 percent in a month, and a minute spent thinking about the short-term stock price is a minute wasted.
Internet company stocks in general are very volatile, and Amazon is definitely included in that,
In September, 6 of the 10 top-selling items on Amazon.com were from our electronics store.
Improvements in the year 2000 will not only be visible in terms of new products and services but should also likely be visible financially as well.
We are very grateful to our customers for choosing Amazon.com as their online music store so quickly. We work hard to earn the confidence of our customers.