Jeff Bezos created the Amazon company in Bellevue, Washington, on July 5th of 1994. Amazon was founded in the garage of Bezos’ rented home. In his garage before Amazon was made he was  developing the software for the site, which he called Amazon.com.  Amazon started with just books. The first book sold in 1995. The reason they started with books is a lot of people were reading a lot of books and also the Kindle had come, out and it was used to read on, so it was one of the reading options. Jeff’s parents had saved up lots of money to start/make Amazon.  

According to David Curry, a contributor to businessesofapps.com, “To get customers locked into the platform, Amazon created Prime in 2005. The service provided subscribers with free delivery on most items and Amazon has added videos and music streaming along with other services.”

Jeff Bezos is worth 154.6 billion dollars in 2023, and Amazon is doing better than ever because of its high quality products and excellent customer service.