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Jeff Bezos (Jeffery Bezos)
Amazon.com -
A Pioneer and Global E- Commerce Giant (1964-Present)
- USA
- "I believe we can still be a footnote in the history of e-commerce." (Jeff Bezos)
Key Work
- Graduates from Princeton.
- Youngest vice president at Bankers Trust.
- Senior vice president at D.E. Shaw and Co. where he helped set up one of the most successful quantitative hedge funds on Wall Street.
- Starts Amazon.com opens for business.
- Amazon.com, Inc. has a market capitalization of over $6 billion
- Survived the dot-com stocks crash in 2000 and turned the first profit in 2001
- Becomes the best known online/e-commerce brand in the world. A Dot-Com icon and inspiration for "Net-preneurs"
Succeeded in creating a strategic competitive advantage by
- Leveraging the low cost of virtual transactions
- Global Internet Marketing Branding
- Building trust in Secure E-Commerce Transactions
- Proper utilization of PR to survive the dot-com confidence crisis
Books and References:
- Saunders, Rebecca. Big Shots, Business the Amazon.com Way: Secrets of the Worlds Most Astonishing Web Business (2nd Edition). New York: John Wiley, 2002.
- Spector, Robert. Amazon.com - Get Big Fast : Inside the Revolutionary Business Model That Changed the World. New York: Harper Business, 2000.
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