Amazon History
What year was Amazon launched?
1995
What is the name of Uncle Jeff’s space/rocket ship company?
Blue Origin
What was the date of Brexit?
January 31 2020
How long is Re:Invent?
3 weeks
A lake used by the Vikings to moor their trade ships
Dublin or Dubh Linn (literal meaning “Black Pool”)
What company did Amazon buy to build robots for it's warehouses?
Kiva
How tall is Uncle Jeff?
5'7
How many lists are part of the U.S. China Section 301 $550B trade actions?
$34 Billion Trade Action (List 1)
$16 Billion Trade Action (List 2)
$200 Billion Trade Action (List 3)
$300 Billion Trade Action (List 4)
When was the first reInvent?
2012
Many regard the city as the world’s biggest man-made forest
Johannesburg
(there are 1.2 million trees within parks and an estimated 4.8 million trees in private gardens)
In what year did Amazon first report an annual net profit?
2004
What kind of job or industry did Uncle Jeff work in before founding Amazon?
hedge fund
The volume of world merchandise trade declined in 2019 for the first time since the financial crisis of?
2008-09
What is the cost to attend the 2020 ReInvent?
Free (Virtual this year); A full pass to the 2019 conference costs $1799.
Home to the largest number of Japanese people outside of Asia
São Paulo
Today the community’s population is believed to be around 1.5 million.
Before deciding on Kindle, what was the name for the famous Amazon e-reader?
Fiona
Where was Uncle Jeff living when he founded Amazon in his garage?
Bellevue
11/15/2020, 15 countries (ASEAN) and five regional partners — signed what?
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP); the largest free trade agreement in history.
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Financial capital city that houses ten of the most important financial centers (Reserve Bank, Stock Exchange, etc..)
Mumbai
May be called the City of Dreams, but it is also the Financial capital of India because of the stock market centres.
What other name did Amazon have before it became 'Amazon'?
Cadabra, Relentless
How many children does Uncle Jeff have?
4
What is the country with the lowest GDP?
South Sudan
What is the cost-effective condition monitoring (motors, pumps, fans, etc..) service announced?
Amazon Monitron (AKA Thor)
Frequent target of pirate attacks in its early days
Charleston
In 1718, none other than Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, attacked several ships trying to enter the harbor. He took hostages and ransomed them for a chest of medicine.