Can you believe Amazon is 30 years old 😨
Online retail giant Amazon is about to celebrate its 30th birthday. The internet icon started out life in Washington state in the early 1990s and has gone on to conquer the world. Jeff Bezos, who has become one of the richest men in the world in the decades since it launched, founded the company in his garage. His parents were among the first investors and put in over $200,000 to help it get started.
For those who are interested it is a non-fiction book which explores the mechanisms of intelligence through computer modelling For the first few years, Amazon exclusively sold books and began to label itself the “world’s biggest bookstore”, which got them into a legal battle with brick and mortar book chain Barnes & Noble in the U.S.
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