Jeff Bezos had to take 60 meetings to raise $1 million for Amazon, giving up 20% to early investors Amazon.com almost didn’t make it out of the gate, with a young Jeff Bezos encountering a common entrepreneurial challenge: raising… Read More
Amazon’s big surprise: Flying drones will deliver packages to customer doorsteps Here is the big surprise unveiled by Amazon on 60 Minutes tonight: The company is working on an R&D project… Read More
60 Minutes promises to reveal a ‘big surprise’ from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Follow-up: Amazon’s big surprise: Flying drones will deliver packages to customer doorsteps Now this is a teaser. 60 Minutes is… Read More
Jeff Bezos remembers Joy Covey, Amazon’s first CFO who was killed in bike accident Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos was among those who spoke Saturday at a memorial service for Joy Covey, the former Amazon.com… Read More
Author of Amazon book responds to review by Bezos’ wife — and Amazon disputes his response Brad Stone, the journalist whose detailed account of Amazon’s rise received a withering, one-star review from Jeff Bezos’ wife MacKenzie… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ wife issues 1-star review for new Amazon book, deems it ‘misleading’ Updated, 2:10 P.M. — Comment from Amazon added near the bottom of this story Out of the 44 reviews for “The… Read More
Amazon debuts weekly literary journal and it has Jeff Bezos’ influence written all over it Amazon is making another move into the publishing space today with the announcement of its own weekly literary journal that will feature one… Read More
New ‘Amazon Smile’ site will donate slice of sales to customer’s favorite cause Whenever Amazon is criticized about its dearth of charitable giving, the company responds by saying that it will make its… Read More
Amazon: Wall Street braces for 2nd straight quarterly loss “Bezos has chosen to run Amazon to be the biggest, most powerful and successful retailer on Earth 20 years from… Read More
Apple vs. Microsoft, Google and Amazon: Why the future of ‘computing’ is a free-for-all Talking about Apple’s new Mac lineup yesterday, CEO Tim Cook had this to say about the unnamed “competition.” “They’re confused,”… Read More
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is in great shape, may be in ‘astronaut training,’ says author Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is looking so fit these days that he may be prepping to go to space. That… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: The inside story of Amazon, with author Brad Stone In less than two decades of existence, Amazon has emerged as a force not just in online commerce but in the… Read More
The ‘Amazon.love’ memo: Jeff Bezos sizes up Amazon’s rivals and their fans One of the more interesting parts of Brad Stone’s new book about Amazon is a previously unpublished memo from Jeff… Read More
Why Jeff Bezos is determined to avoid “Steve Jobs’ mistake” Amazon is legendary for its thin profit margins, but there’s a method to the company’s madness, as detailed in Brad… Read More
Amazon unpacked: Brad Stone on his new book, ‘The Everything Store’ Brad Stone’s new book about Amazon.com, “The Everything Store,” will be released on Tuesday — a definitive and unvarnished account… Read More
Review: ‘The Everything Store’ is the definitive story of Amazon When journalist Brad Stone first sat down with Jeff Bezos to discuss his plan to write a book about Amazon,… Read More
Advice from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: Be proud of your choices, not your gifts A fourth grader asked the question, but it really could have applied to anyone. Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos,… Read More
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on the most important traits of innovators A willingness to fail. A willingness to be misunderstood. And maintaining a childlike wonder in the world. Whether you’re a… Read More
Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture now employs 300 people, gearing up for commercial operations Blue Origin, the Seattle-based space venture backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has been quietly working for the past 13… Read More
Photos: Bezos Center for Innovation showcases Seattle’s inventions, aims to inspire future entrepreneurs Jeff Bezos knows a little something about innovation and what it can mean for an individual, a company, a city,… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ biological dad didn’t know his son was Jeff Bezos, until journalist informed him last year Ted Jorgensen is a 69-year-old former circus performer and unicyclist who runs a small bike shop in Glendale, Ariz. He has… Read More
The top 50 disruptors: Jeff Bezos leads Vanity Fair’s ‘New Establishment’ list At the GeekWire Summit last month, venture capitalist Bill Gurley and Zillow chairman Rich Barton pointed out their belief that… Read More
Which Jeff Bezos just bought The Washington Post? William Randolph Hearst. Joseph Pulitzer. John S. Knight. Katharine Graham. And now … Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has… Read More
Week in Review: Kindle Fire HDX, Ballmer’s goodbye, and Control-Alt-Delete revisited Need to catch up at the end of the week? Here’s a roundup of highlights from GeekWire this week. Steve… Read More
Three book recommendations for executives from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos isn’t the first guy you’d expect to host a book club. But that’s exactly what he did this… Read More
Jeff Bezos explains the next step in Amazon’s strategy — the ‘hardest and coolest’ part In a series of briefings with reporters this week at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, Jeff Bezos started by going to the… Read More
First look: Amazon’s Kindle Fire ‘Origami’ stand in action How does your tablet stand up? No, literally. A day after Microsoft debuted a new version of its Surface tablet… Read More
Amazon debuts ‘second screen’ TV experience for Kindle HDX, but Bezos mum on further living room plans The debut of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX tablet lineup is bringing a new feature to the company’s Instant Video… Read More
With new Kindle Fire HDX, Jeff Bezos sees Amazon’s big bets coming together Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos can hardly wait to demo this feature. Sitting in a conference room in the middle of… Read More
Rich Barton and Bill Gurley agree: Jeff Bezos is the most respected CEO by people in Silicon Valley For every successful company out there, there is a plethora of highly-talented CEOs running great companies. But there is one… Read More
