Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc.

Logo since 2024
Doppler building, Amazon's headquarters in Seattle
Trade name	Amazon
Formerly	Cadabra, Inc. (1994–95)
Company type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: AMZN NASDAQ-100 component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component
ISIN	US0231351067
Industry	Cloud computing e-commerce artificial intelligence consumer electronics digital distribution self-driving cars
Founded	July 5, 1994; 30 years ago (1994-07-05) Bellevue, Washington, U.S.
Founder	Jeff Bezos
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington and Arlington, Virginia , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jeff Bezos (President, CEO, and Chairman) Andy Jassy (CEO-elect) Brian Olsavsky (Senior VP and CFO)
Products	Echo Fire Tablet Fire TV Fire OS Kindle
Services	Amazon.com[broken anchor] Amazon Alexa Amazon Appstore Amazon Music Amazon Prime Amazon Prime Video Amazon Web Services
Revenue	US$386.064 billion (2020)
Operating income	US$22.9 billion (2020)
Net income	US$21.331 billion (2020)
Total assets	US$321.2 billion (2020)
Total equity	US$93.404 billion (2020)
Number of employees	1,298,000 (Dec. 2020)[1] U.S.: 810,000 (Oct. 2020)[2]
Subsidiaries	A9.com AbeBooks Alexa Internet Amazon.com Services Amazon Air Amazon Books Amazon Fresh Amazon Game Studios Amazon Lab126 Amazon Logistics Amazon Pharmacy Amazon Publishing Amazon Robotics Amazon Studios AWS Audible Body Labs Book Depository ComiXology Digital Photography Review Goodreads Graphiq IMDb PillPack Ring Souq.com Twitch Interactive Whole Foods Market Woot Zappos
Website	amazon.com
Footnotes / references [1][3][4][5][6][7]

Amazon.com, Inc., known as Amazon (/ˈæməˌzɒn/), is an American multinational technology company focusing on selling things online, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is considered to be one of the Big Five American technology companies, alongside Alphabet (parent company of Google), Apple, Meta and Microsoft.

Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, on July 5, 1994. It started selling books online. Now it sells many things online, so it is sometimes called The Everything Store. It has multiple subsidiaries including Amazon Web Services (cloud computing), Zoox (autonomous vehicles), Kuiper Systems (satellite Internet), and Amazon Lab126 (computer hardware R&D). The company owns Ring, Twitch, IMDb, and Whole Foods Market. Its acquisition of Whole Foods in August 2017 for US$13.4 billion substantially increased its footprint as a physical retailer.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872421000004/amzn-20201231.htm#i75de98b9097f40f3b5884e541f532421_73. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/pushed-by-pandemic-amazon-goes-on-a-hiring-spree-without-equal.html. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
3. ↑ Annual report 2019. Seattle, Washington: Amazon. December 31, 2019. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
4. ↑ "Amazon.com, Inc. Common Stock (AMZN) Financials". www.nasdaq.com.
5. ↑ "Form 10-K". Amazon.com. December 31, 2018. Archived from the original on April 20, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
6. ↑ "California Secretary of State Business Search". Businesssearch.sos.ca.gov. Archived from the original on 2018-02-23. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
7. ↑ "Amazon bought Whole Foods a year ago. Here's what has changed". Yahoo! Finance.