With an employee headcount of 268,900 employees (and certainly growing as I type this), Amazon has come a long way since 1994, when founder Jeff Bezos brought on Shel Kaphan,… Read More
You know the story of Jeff Bezos, the Wall Street computer science guru with the Texas-sized laugh who founded Amazon.com after a cross-country voyage from New York to Seattle in… Read More
The reviews for Brad Stone’s book profiling Amazon’s early years are beginning to resemble something approaching a water cooler for people associated with Amazon. In a four-star review of “The… Read More
Earlier this week, we listed your favorite stories of 2011 — the 100 most-popular news items, columns and features on GeekWire this year, based on your clicks. Now we’d like… Read More
Amazon.com today is approaching 40,000 employees. Seventeen years ago, Shel Kaphan was No. 1. GeekWire Interview: Shel Kaphan, Amazon.com’s first employee Part 1: The forgotten founder? Part 2: Meeting Jeff… Read More