1994年創業時のAmazon

アマゾンの最初のオフィスとジェフ・ベゾスさん

このぼろいオフィスと配線の山とおっさんが一人。これがそうです。あの今はどこでもありそうな会社、Amazonの創業時の姿です。どこにでもありそうな風景でしょ？

スプレーペンキの不良の落書きみたいな青文字で、Amazon.comとか、大書してますね。きっと真夜中にスプレーで書いたのでしょう。

以下、簡単な英語でこのガレージ法人が今の巨大ITになりおおせたか、を見てみましょう。

Amazon today became only the second US company in history to touch a market capitalization of $3 trillion. Amazon’s $3 trillion (Rs. 210 lakh crore) milestone came a month after Apple had touched the same valuation, but Amazon is a much younger company than Apple. Apple had been founded all the way back in 1976, while Amazon was founded in 1994. And back then, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had an office that was much like the office of any young startup looking to make its mark.

Jeff Bezos had quit his lucrative job at Wall Street in 1994 and driven across the country to Seattle, where he’d quickly set up a small setup using a loan from his parents. In pictures of the office from the time, Bezos is seen sitting at a large wooden desk with “amazon.com” written on the wall next to him in what looks like blue spray paint. Bezos has a clunky old CRT monitor in front of him, and a jumble of cables are haphazardly connected to an extension cord.

要するに、こんな起業家は、ゴマンといたというわけです。なんか親近感が湧きますよね。

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