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Amazon is created
Amazon opened up as a bookstore. -
Amazon is public
Amazon goes public at $18. -
More Amazon facilities open
Amazon’s demand kept growing so more facilities needed to be built. -
Amazon starts selling music
They started selling music depending on how the customer felt. -
Amazon creates 1 click patent
Amazon issued the 1 click patent so customers could purchase items with just a click. -
Amazon starts selling clothes
Amazon starts offering more than just books etc. -
Amazon launches web hosting business
Fifteen years later, Amazon Web Services dominates cloud hosting and is one of the company's biggest revenue drivers. -
Amazon enters China
Amazon pays $75 million to buy Joyo, the largest online seller of books and electronics in the growing Chinese market. -
Amazon prime is created
Now, with more than 100 million members worldwide, Prime is considered one of Amazon's most valuable assets. -
Kindle goes on sale
Just as the holiday shopping season is about kick into full gear, Amazon unveils its Kindle. -
Amazon acquires audiobooks company Audible
Amazon pays $300 million for Audible, which comes with a library of 80,000 programs in the United States and Europe. -
Amazon acquires shoe shopping site Zappos
Amazon buys online shoe retailer Zappos in an all-stock deal worth nearly $900 million. -
Amazon acquires robotics company Kiva Systems
Amazon buys Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts-based maker of warehouse robots, for $775 million. -
Jeff Bezos announces intention to buy The Washington Post
Bezos says he will pay $250 million of his own money for the financially struggling Washington Post. -
Amazon unveils its first and last smartphone
Amazon enters the smartphone market with its Fire phone, which integrated with Amazon's universe of media streaming options. -
Amazon opens its first physical bookstore
After being blamed for the decline of independent bookstores across the country, Amazon opens its own physical retail location in Seattle. -
Amazon acquires Whole Foods
After struggling for years in the intensely competitive grocery delivery business, Amazon ups the ante and purchases Whole Foods' 471 stores for $13.7 billion. -
Amazon reaches a $1 trillion market cap
Amazon's stock price rises enough to make the company briefly worth $1 trillion. -
Amazon marks 25 years in business
Amazon has 647,500 employees, occupies 288.4 million square feet of real estate, and accounts for nearly half of online retail in the United States.
