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New · October 17, 2026

Amazon

An online store with its own delivery network, and the company that runs AWS.

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Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, in Seattle, as an online bookstore. It grew into a store that sells almost everything, and most of what it sells today comes from independent sellers who list their products on Amazon's marketplace and pay fees for the sale, and often for Amazon to store and ship the goods. Behind the website sits one of the largest logistics networks in the world: warehouses, sorting centers, planes and delivery vans.

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