Amazon Just Learned a $2.5 Billion Lesson About How Not to Treat Customers

In 1997, Amazon’s founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, told the company’s shareholders that the company’s focus would be to “obsess ...
Newsweek

Amazon Box From 1997 Found in Basement Sparks Nostalgia: ‘Prime Discovery’

A Reddit user has delighted the internet by sharing a picture of an Amazon delivery box from 1997. Found in a basement by Patrick S in Minnesota, a picture of the box was shared on the popular Reddit ...
Business Insider

Amazon's 1997 shareholder letter is a free MBA class on leadership — here are 4 lessons from it

Amazon's 1997 shareholder letter offers brilliant business lessons from Jeff Bezos. Alex Lieberman, executive chairman and cofounder of Morning Brew, recently posted on Twitter about those lessons.
Business Insider

Jeff Bezos shared a note from a couple that bought 2 shares of Amazon in 1997 — and are now using the proceeds to buy a house after the company's 172,499% post-IPO run

Jeff Bezos shared a note from a couple who bought two shares of Amazon in 1997 in his recent shareholder letter. It's not specified when the purchase occurred. But if the couple bought shares at the ...
Fast Company

A rediscovered 1997 video reveals why Jeff Bezos chose books and not CDs to be Amazon’s first product

“Books were great as the first best because books are incredibly unusual in one respect, that is that there are more items in the book category than there are items in any other category by far.” ...
Business Insider

Amazon’s stock price on its 25th anniversary shows the potential of investing early in game-changing companies that become consumer favorites

Amazon was founded 25 years ago today, on July 5, 1994. The company was the second in the US to hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion in 2018, but had a long road to that success. Early investors ...