Amazon – Company Profile

Origin of the company:

Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeffrey P. Bezos. Jeff Bezos incorporated the
company in July 1994. The name Amazon was founded soon after because the Amazon River is the
largest in the world, and the letter “A” would help the company to show up at the top of alphabetical
lists. The logo itself is the company name. Amazon, with an arrow below, pointing from A to Z,
representing that they could provide every product in the alphabet and also customer satisfaction, as it
forms a smile. The site went online as Amazon.com in 1995. The one thing that made them famous was
their books. Their first profit was reached in the last quarter of 2001. Amazons headquarters is
in Seattle Washington United States. It is also a major provider of cloud computing services.

Key People:

Jeffrey Bezos
President, CEO and Chairman of the Board

Andrew Jassy
CEO, Amazon Web Services

Brian Olsavsky
SVP and CFO
 David Zapolsky
SVP, General Counsel and Secretary

Shelley Reynolds
VP, Worldwide Controller and Principal Accounting Officer

Jeffrey Wilke
CEO, Worldwide Consumer

Jeffrey Blackburn
SVP, Business Develop men

Products and services:

 Retail goods
 Amazon Prime
 Consumer electronics
 Amazon games
 Amazon art
 Amazon video
 Amazon business
  Amazon drive
 Amazon web services
 New book content production
 Amazon smile
 Amazon local
 Amazon wireless

Recruitments in amazon:
 Administrative support
 Business and Merchant Development
 Business Intelligence
 Customer Service
 Data science
 Database Administration
 Design
 Finance and accounting
 Economics
 Legal
 Human Resources

Value system:
These are Amazon’s core principles and core values that everyone acts by on their own :
 Customer Obsession : For which Amazon is famous
 Ownership
 Invent and Simplify
 Are Right, A Lot
 Hire and Develop the Best
 Insist on the Highest Standards
 Think Big
 Bias for Action
 Frugality
 Vocally Self Critical
 Earn Trust of Others
 Dive Deep
 Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
 Deliver Results
Departments:
 Advertising
 Amazon alexa
 Prime video
 Amazon books
 Amazon customer service
 Amazon devices
 Amazon Go
 Amazon pop up
 Amazon web services
 Digital entertainment
 Finance and accounting
 Marketplace