History
Acquisitions
Peculiar Facts
Prime Day
100

The first name originally given to the company

What is Cadabra?

Jeff Bezos' lawyer told him that the magic reference was too obscure, and when you say it out loud, "cadabra" could be mistaken for "cadaver."

100

This was Amazon's largest acquisition to date, occurring in 2017.

What is Whole Foods Market?

100

This is the name of Jeff Bezos' space/rocket ship company

What is Blue Origin?
100

The first Prime Day took place in this year.

What is 2015?

200

The other name for the Amazon Flywheel, the strategy that leverages on customer experience to drive traffic to the platform and third-party sellers.

What is the Amazon Virtuous Cycle?

200

In 2014, Amazon acquired this live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming

What is Twitch?

200

This is the name of the research and development and computer hardware company based in California that is known for developing the Kindle.

What is Amazon Lab126?

200

In 2020, it was the most popular item purchased on Prime Day globally

What is Echo Dot?

300

This is the year Amazon Prime Launched

What is 2005?

300

One of Amazon's first acquisitions in 1998, was of this online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content online

What is IMDb?

300

The number of employees at Amazon

What is about 1,600,000?

300

In 2020, the fastest delivery on Prime Day was this long

What is 30 minutes?

400

Amazon was established in Jeff Bezos' garage, in this city.

What is Bellevue, Washington

400

In 2008, Amazon acquired this online audiobook and podcast service

What is Audible?

400

Amazon bought the naming rights to an arena in Seattle, which will the first zero-carbon arena in the world, powered exclusively by renewable energy and named it this.

What is Climate Pledge Arena?

400

Prime Day in this year, was the first to last longer than 24 hours

What is 2017?

started on July 11 and ran for 30 hours

500

The first book ever sold on Amazon.com

What is Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Doug Hofstadte?

500

Within three months of each other in late 2017/early 2018, Amazon acquired these two companies related to home security cameras/detection

What are Ring and Blink

500

This was the second name chosen for the company, and the website still links to Amazon.com today

What is Relentless?

500

Prime Day was established as a way to commemorate this event.

What is Amazon's 20th Anniversary?