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Amazon.com began as a small operation with the goal of selling and delivering any book to any person anywhere. Needless to say, Amazon was met with skepticism.
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In 1996, Amazon's annual revenue was $15.7 million. In two years, Amazon's revenue rocketed to $610 million, thanks to national and international sales. This amazing success earned CEO Jeff Bezos the title of Time: Man of the Year in 1999.
Source: time.com

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To show the world they weren't just about retail, Amazon released two different Cloud services in one year. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) rented computer processing power, while Simple Storage Service (S3) was a rental for data storage. Both are used by Netflix today!
Source: www.techrepublic.com

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You all know what it's called...the Kindle! When Amazon introduced their own eReader, bookstores stopped seeing Amazon as another bookseller; Amazon was now a competitor.
By 2012, the KindleFire accounted for 50% of Android tablets purchased.
Source: www.slashgear.com

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In an effort to spread popular self-published and out-of-print books, Amazon introduced AmazonEncore!
Source: apub.com

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To expand their food delivery, and to show their value of high quality food, Whole Foods was purchased by Amazon.com for $13 billion.
Source: reallifestl.com

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From modest beginnings as a online bookseller in 1994, Amazon has expanded to sell us everything we could ever want.
Source: wtvox.com
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