Amazon Basics
Started in this founder's garage in 1994
Jeff Bezos
Launch year of Amazon Prime
2005
Amazon's virtual assistant
Alexa
2017 grocery chain acquisition for $13.7 billion
Whole Foods
Term for Amazon employees
Amazonians
Amazon's first product category
Books
Original annual Prime membership cost
$79
Amazon's first successful hardware product
Kindle e-reader
Video game streaming platform bought in 2014
Twitch
Amazon's customer-focused motto
Day 1
Amazon changed its name from this because it sounded too much like "cadaver"
Cadabra
This shopping event launched in 2015 for Prime members
Prime Day
Amazon's cloud computing service
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Smart doorbell company acquired in 2018
Ring
Number of leadership principles as of 2024
16
City where Amazon was founded
Bellevue, Washington
Number of hours Prime members have to wait for standard shipping
48 hours (2-day shipping)
Technology behind Amazon's cashierless stores
Just Walk Out
Online shoe retailer Amazon bought in 2009
Zappos
Simple furniture used as desks in early Amazon
Door desks
This 1995 order was Amazon's first book sale
"Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought"
First NFL package to stream exclusively on Prime Video
Thursday Night Football
Amazon's autonomous delivery drone program
Prime Air
Movie studio acquired in 2021 for $8.45 billion
MGM
Seattle neighborhood home to Amazon's headquarters
South Lake Union