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Founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos established is company in 1994 after he left his job as a vice president of the Wall Street firm D.E. Shaw.
 Amazon lists 5 promising products as he thought would a great idea:
  • Compact Disk
  • Computer Hardware
  • Computer Software
  • Videos
  • Books


Shop Amazon - Pre-order Xbox 360 Games
Source: "Amazon.com, Inc." International Directory of Company Histories. Ed. Tina Grant. Vol. 113. Detroit: St. James Press, 2010. Business Insights: Essentials. Web. 12 July 2013
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