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Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking./p>
In 1994, Jeff Bezos incorporated Amazon. In May 1997, the organization went public. The company began selling music and videos in 1998, at which time it began operations internationally by acquiring online sellers of books in United Kingdom and Germany. The following year, the organization also sold video games, consumer electronics, home-improvement items, software, games, and toys in addition to other items.
In 2002, the corporation started Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provided data on Web site popularity, Internet traffic patterns and other statistics for marketers and developers. In 2006, the organization grew its AWS portfolio when Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which rents computer processing power as well as Simple Storage Service (S3), that rents data storage via the Internet, were made available. That same year, the company started Fulfillment by Amazon which managed the inventory of individuals and small companies selling their belongings through the company internet site. In 2012, Amazon bought Kiva Systems to automate its inventory-management business, purchasing Whole Foods Market supermarket chain five years later in 2017.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen; January 12, 1964) is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, CEO, and president of Amazon.com, Inc.
Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He founded Amazon in late 1994 on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has expanded to a wide variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is currently the world's largest online sales company, the largest internet company by revenue, as well as the world's largest provider of AI assistance[citation needed] and cloud infrastructure services via its Amazon Web Services arm.
Read more 1964 January 12We strive to have a positive impact on customers, employees, small businesses, the economy, and communities where we’re located. Amazonians are smart, passionate builders with different backgrounds and goals, who share a common desire to always be learning and inventing on behalf of our customers.
Amazon is committed to helping small businesses and entrepreneurs grow sales and reach new customers. Today, more than 1.9 million businesses, content creators and developers in the U.S. use Amazon products and services to follow their dreams and reach customers.
Amazon contributes to economic growth through direct and indirect job creation and investment in communities where we operate. Amazon employs more than 275,000 people in the U.S. and our investments have led to the creation of more than 680,000 jobs in the U.S. in addition to our direct hires.
Amazon is committed to ensuring children and young adults have the resources they need to build their best and brightest futures. We do this through philanthropy, advocacy, and educational opportunities, with a focus on underrepresented and underprivileged communities. Amazon believes in using its scale for good, through programs like Amazon Future Engineer and Disaster Relief by Amazon.
Read more 2019 Jun 07Orange robots, about the size of a big suitcase, buzz through the Amazon sortation center in Denver, Colorado. Conveyor belts on top of the robots look like a mini treadmill for packages that are delivered to one of hundreds of chutes in the warehouse. Amazon associates rely on software to guide the company's newest robotic drive units, which help get packages to customers more quickly.
"If you had told 10-year-old me that my job would revolve around robots every day, there's no way I would have believed you," said Cathryn Kachura, an Amazonian who keeps the robots running.
Kachura didn't have experience with robotics. What she did have, was grit and potential – qualities her managers spotted in her from day one. It wasn't long before she was promoted into a full-time role with greater responsibility. Recently, leadership approached her with a new opportunity. "They said, 'Hey, Cat, we have this flow control specialist role coming up. We'd like to put you in the role and give you this opportunity because you have worked and proven your skills, and we know this will be something you'll be good at.'"
He is a graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) in Aeronautical Engineering and holds a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University
Read more 2019 Jun 05As a chief scientist for Worldwide Operations at Amazon, Russell Allgor helps create the systems that deliver customer orders in the most efficient way possible. A big part of that is the marriage between the people who work in Amazon’s warehouses, also called fulfillment centers, and the systems guided by artificial intelligence and machine learning. In this video, Allgor explains how it all comes together in ways most customers might never imagine.
Read more 2019 Jun 05
Inspiration truly comes in many forms for the walls that adorn the office spaces in Bangalore. They tell stories taking pointers from Amazon’s leadership principles, various initiatives pioneered at Amazon, quotes by their leaders and technological innovations. These walls are a larger than life presence igniting creativity and innovation.
Displayed here are all the devices conceived at Amazon, starting from the Kindle, Fire TV stick to the many evolving versions of Echo. We are future ready at Amazon!
The walls in the cafeteria are a visual treat, using props like ladles, graters and straws to illustrate some inspiring thoughts.
This wall narrates some of the India first initiatives like Project Udaan, Amazo Saheli, Amazon Tatkal all covered by the homegrown Day One blog that among many other things tells inspiring stories about Amazon.
Read more 2018 Nov 18
In several communities in the vicinity of Amazon Fulfillment Centres in India, women folk continue to be relegated to household chores, with almost no avenue to earn livelihoods and learn skills. But things are slowly starting to change. They say that when a woman is educated and empowered, it causes a ripple effect for the generation that follows. We see this in action every single day at Amazon Community Centres around the country.
Amazon India has built Community Centres near its Fulfillment Centres around the country. Usually on the outskirts of metros, these centres are platforms for anyone from the community to come together, learn basic skills like computers, sewing, access the Internet and other digital education aids like LCD screens, DVD players, and e-content.
Women of the community often frequent Amazon Community Centres and that has opened many doors for them.
This is just one of the many stories of empowerment from Amazon Community Centres. From educating young girls through the Early Childhood Development Programs to basic English language training, Amazon Community Centres are transforming the lives of women and in the process, uplifting entire communities.
Read more 2019 January 20
In India, an innovative program is giving women opportunities they never imagined.
Walking in, the first thing you see is the children — beaming little faces, singing songs in a colorfully painted room, cooled from the 110-degree Fahrenheit heat by ceiling fans and powered by solar cells on the roof. Despite the heat, it is remarkably comfortable inside the Amazon Cares Community Center, where women are learning life-changing skills.
The place is rural India, about 90 minutes outside Delhi, in Haryana. It is an undeveloped village, where livestock roam the rocky streets, and it’s not uncommon to find people surviving on as little as $100 per month.
Rather than simply teach the women to sew, Malhotra and Amazon’s local operations team partnered to have the women provide Amazon with the shiny black bags which were originally being purchased in bulk from a manufacturing vendor.
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Read more 2018 Aug 14
A wide network of Amazon’s offline associates is making online shopping the new normal in small town India and beyond
In line with its vision to transform the way India buys and sells, Amazon.in today officially rolled out its assisted online shopping service, internally codenamed Project Udaan till now, under the brand name Amazon Easy. The India-specific innovation is aimed at enabling customers in smaller markets to get access to the convenience of online shopping. Under the Amazon Easy umbrella, Amazon India aims to help break down various transaction barriers for first-time online shoppers like trust, lack of Internet access , language and as well as digital payments, to embrace e-commerce.
Udaan brings together several aspects of enabling digital commerce via assisted shopping beyond metro cities, including skill development, self-employment and in several cases, even Amazon Pickup, i.e. select offline stores where customers can choose to have their orders delivered. All of these go hand in hand in introducing online shopping to new consumers who have heard of Amazon but haven’t experienced the convenience of shopping on it first hand.
Read more 2018 May 29