E-commerce
Amazon.
The company founded by Jeff Bezos, whose development from online bookselling connects retail, logistics and technology infrastructure.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Visit AmazonPEOPLE IN THIS STORY
Jeff BezosEXPLORE THE FIELD
E-commerce
WHAT THE BUSINESS OFFERS
The work behind
the name.
Retail marketplace
Online shopping connecting products and customers.
Fulfilment and delivery
Operations supporting the movement of orders.
Cloud computing
Technology infrastructure offered through Amazon Web Services.
01 / THE BUSINESS IN FOCUS
An online storefront needs an operating system behind it.
Amazon began as an online bookseller. Jeff Bezos’s founding proposition connected the reach of the internet with a catalogue people could browse and order from remotely. The visible website depended on practical work behind the scenes: sourcing products, taking payments and delivering orders.
The company’s subsequent development spans a marketplace, logistics and cloud computing, among other activities. Those businesses solve different problems and should not be reduced to a single storefront. Bezos’s biography follows the decisions behind the early company and his wider career; this portrait keeps Amazon as the primary business connection.
THE REFERENCE DESK
Read the
underlying record.
Official sources accompany this portrait. Company descriptions record the business’s own account of its offering and development.
- aboutamazon.comAmazon: official website
Brand image: Amazon — image source.
Our editorial approachBEHIND THE BUSINESS