American entrepreneur who founded Amazon in 1994 in a garage — building it from an online bookstore to the world's largest e-commerce platform, AWS (cloud computing), Whole Foods, Washington Post, and Blue Origin — one of the most consequential businessmen in history.
Created the customer obsession doctrine and invented cloud computing — Amazon's operating principles (work backwards from the customer, long-term thinking, high velocity decision-making) and AWS's creation (which generated the cloud computing industry) constitute the two most influential contributions to 21st century business and technology.
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