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Websiteamazon.com
CategoryeCommerce
Phone(206) 266-1000
Employees
Founded1994

Offices

Seattle, USA
1200 12th Ave
S # 1200
Seattle, WA, 98144
USA

People

SVP, Business Development
SVP Web Services
SVP Worldwide Digital Media
SVP, Worldwide Operations
SVP, International Retail
SVP and CFO
SVP, Ecommerce Platform
SVP, North America Retail
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SVP and CIO
SVP and CAO
Director Product Development
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Acquisitions

Total$1.48B
Zappos, 7/09 $928M
SnapTell, 6/09
Lexcycle, 4/09
Reflexive Entertaiment, 10/08
Reflexive Entertainment, 10/08
Shelfari, 8/08
Tastemakers, 8/08
AbeBooks, 8/08
Fabric.com, 6/08
Audible, 1/08 $300M
Without A Box, 1/08
Brilliance Audio, 5/07
dpreview, 5/07
TextPayMe, 2007
Alexa, 4/99 $250M
IMDB, 1998

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Amazon

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) is a leading global Internet company and one of the most trafficked Internet retail destinations worldwide. Amazon directly sells, or acts as a platform for the sale of, a very broad range of products, including books, music, videos, consumer electronics, clothing and household products. The majority of Amazon’s sales are products sold by Amazon, with the remaining amount from third-party sellers. Through year-end 2006, Amazon had approximately 64 million active customers worldwide. In 2006, 55% of Amazon’s revenue was generated in North America and 45% was generated by its International segment. Within North America, Media was 61% of total sales, Electronics & General Merchandise (EGM) was 34% of the total, and Other revenue was 4%. Within its International segment, Media was 72% of sales and EGM was 28% of sales. Amazon has direct operations in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Amazon was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Amazon is an online shopping website with one of the largest product supplies online. It was one of the first companies to sell products deep into the long tail by housing them all in numerous warehouses and distributing products from many partner companies.

Since 2004 Amazon has begun rapidly expanding its web services arsenal. Products such as Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage System), have been large success.

Prior to these services Amazon had survived on a low margin business model that relied on enormous volume in product sales. Amazon is looking to these services to provide a healthier profit margin.

Milestones

  • Invested in Engine Yard. (10/7/09)
    Posted 10/7/09 at 7:32pm
  • Acquired Zappos for $928M. (7/22/09)
    Posted 7/22/09 at 12:42pm
  • Invested in Animoto. (6/18/09)
    Posted 6/17/09 at 8:03pm
  • Acquired SnapTell. (6/16/09)
    Posted 6/25/09 at 4:33pm
  • Invested in BookTour. (4/17/09)
    Posted 4/17/09 at 7:34pm
  • Invested in Foodista. (4/16/09)
    Posted 4/22/09 at 3:42pm
  • Acquired Lexcycle. (4/09)
    Posted 4/27/09 at 7:40pm
  • Invested in Yieldex. (2/18/09)
    Posted 2/18/09 at 11:17am
  • Acquired Reflexive Entertaiment. (10/22/08)
    Posted 10/13/09 at 12:09am
  • Acquired Reflexive Entertainment. (10/20/08)
    Posted 11/3/08 at 2:02pm
  • Acquired Shelfari. (8/25/08)
    Posted 11/25/08 at 4:50pm
  • Acquired Tastemakers. (8/24/08)
    Posted 8/9/09 at 5:21pm
  • Invested in Elastra. (8/5/08)
    Posted 8/29/08 at 12:01pm
  • Acquired AbeBooks. (8/1/08)
    Posted 8/1/08 at 9:51am
  • Invested in Engine Yard. (7/13/08)
    Posted 7/13/08 at 6:16pm
  • Acquired Fabric.com. (6/25/08)
    Posted 6/25/08 at 3:01pm
  • Invested in The Talk Market. (6/12/08)
    Posted 3/4/09 at 7:28pm
  • Went public with stock symbol AMZN.
    Posted 2/10/08 at 3:28pm
  • Acquired Audible for $300M. (1/31/08)
    Posted 6/25/08 at 3:15pm
  • Acquired Without A Box. (1/18/08)
    Posted 10/13/09 at 12:02am
  • Invested in Bill Me Later. (12/07)
    Posted 5/19/08 at 11:46am
  • William B. Gordon, Board added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:49pm
  • Mark Peek, SVP and CAO added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:39pm
  • Jeffrey Blackburn, SVP, Business Development added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:34pm
  • John Doerr, Board added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:47pm
  • John Seely Brown, Board added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:46pm
  • Thomas Szkutak, SVP and CFO added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:41pm
  • Tom Alberg, Board added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:46pm
  • L. Michelle Wilson, SVP, General Counsel, Secretary added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:44pm
  • Diego Piacentini, SVP, International Retail added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:40pm
  • Steven Kessel, SVP Worldwide Digital Media added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:38pm
  • Marc Onetto, SVP, Worldwide Operations added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:39pm
  • H. Brian Valentine, SVP, Ecommerce Platform added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:42pm
  • Jeffrey Wilke, SVP, North America Retail added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:43pm
  • Andrew Jassy, SVP Web Services added.
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:37pm
  • Invested in Amie Street. (8/1/07)
    Posted 8/6/07 at 1:59pm
  • Acquired Brilliance Audio. (5/23/07)
    Posted 10/7/09 at 2:07am
  • Acquired dpreview for $0. (5/1/07)
    Posted 8/23/07 at 5:07am
  • Invested in Shelfari. (2/1/07)
    Posted 2/14/08 at 4:47pm
  • Acquired TextPayMe. (2007)
    Posted 7/30/08 at 8:00pm
  • Invested in Wikia. (12/1/06)
    Posted 7/30/07 at 10:51pm
  • Invested in delicious. (4/1/05)
    Posted 8/15/07 at 1:31am
  • Invested in 43 Things, The Robot Co-op. (11/1/04)
    Posted 5/20/09 at 2:40pm
  • Richard Dalzell, SVP and CIO added. (2001)
    Posted 8/17/07 at 10:35pm
  • Acquired Alexa for $250M. (4/1/99)
    Posted 2/10/08 at 12:23pm
  • Acquired IMDB. (1998)
    Posted 9/18/08 at 4:26pm

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Sources

  1. Amazon to Acquire Zappos.com for $807M (foxbusiness.com) []
  2. Image Recognition Startup SnapTell Acquired by Amazon Subsidiary A9.com (techcrunch.com) []
  3. Amazon Acquires Lexcycle (pcworld.com) []
  4. Amazon Buys Casual Games Distributor Reflexive Entertainment (dmwmedia.com) []
  5. Amazon Snaps Up Video Game Provider Reflexive (techcrunch.com) []
  6. Amazon Acquires Shelfari: Moves To Corner Book-Centric Social Networks (techcrunch.com) []
  7. Amazon Acquires Shelfari: Moves To Corner Book-Centric Social Networks (techcrunch.com) []
  8. Amazon To Acquire AbeBooks, And With It A Stake In LibraryThing (techcrunch.com) []
  9. Amazon Gets Some New Threads, Acquires Fabric.com (techcrunch.com) []
  10. Amazon Strengthens Its Digital Hand With $300 Million Purchase of Audible (techcrunch.com) []
  11. Amazon Unit Buys Without A Box (emii.com) []
  12. Amazon.com Buys Brilliance Audio (encyclopedia.com) []
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  19. BookTour Raises $350,000 From Amazon (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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  21. Amazon Invests In Online Ad Optimization Firm Yieldex (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  22. ELASTRA Closes $12 Million In Series B Financing (elastra.com) [edit]
  23. Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark (brainspl.at) [edit]
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  29. Profile: Del.icio.us (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. Amazon invests in blogging site (news.cnet.com) [edit]

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