2. Mission & Vision Statement:
"Our vision is to be earth's most
customer-centric company; to build a
place where people can come to find
and discover anything they might want
to buy online."
Amazon.com, Inc.1994
The first initial start-up
capital came from his parents
contributing $300,000
Corporate offices are located in
Seattle, Washington.
Initial Public offering (IPO) in May
1997 common stock “AMZN.” at $18
a share
Email to contact Jeff Bezos
jeff@amazon.com
3. Amazon Leadership Principles
Amazon differentiates
with four principles
• Customer Obsession
• Passion for Invention
• Commitment to
Operational Excellence
• Long-Term Thinking
4. Amazon Fulfillment Network
In the U.S., Amazon currently has
more than 70 fulfillment centers and
more than 90,000 full-time Amazon
employees. One of Amazon's
largest fulfillment center is
located in Phoenix, Arizona can
hold 28 football fields. Employees
requirements are to be able to lift
up to 49 pounds and stand or walk
for 10 to 12 hours per day.
Depending on their role, workers
may walk between 7 and 15 miles
inside the warehouses every day.
Job listings warn that
temperatures inside fulfillment
centers can sometimes rise above
90 to 114 degrees.
In December 2014, Amazon
introduced their eighth generation
fulfillment technology and robotics.
5. Amazon will pay you $5,000 to quit your job
“better way to do things internally”
LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS
If employees are not happy and would
like to leave
Once a year employees are offered
$2000, the first year and goes up $1,000 a
year until it reaches $5000.
The goal is to encourage employees to
take a moment to think about, what they
really want.
Amazon will 95% college tuition
reimbursement.
7. “Two Pizza Rule”
At Amazon the company strives
for efficiency-enhancing practices
such as not wasting valuable time
in meeting using his “two pizza
rule.” While meetings are
important and can unavoidable at
times, the company makes it a
point the avoid meeting that are
unnecessary by saying if there is
enough people in the room for
two pizzas it’s unproductive and
wasting time and diminish
creativity, efficiency and
innovation.
8. “The most important person in the room”
CEO Jeff Bezos has always
considered the boss of the
company to be the customers,
and the reason for this is,
because the customers are always
right, without a doubt. When
amazon has managers meeting
Jeff leaves a seat empty and tells
his managers to acknowledge that
the empty seat represents the
customer, “The most important
person in the room
9. Amazon’s dog-friendly offices
HIGHLIGHTS
The three most popular dog
breeds at Amazon are golden
retrievers, Labrador retrievers
and labradoodles.
The top three names are Lucy,
Bella and Charlie.
More than 4,000 dogs are
registered to “work” with their
owners at Amazon.
Seattle Corporate location
10.
11. Net sales revenue of Amazon
from 2004 to 2016
(in billion U.S. dollars)
13. September 11, 2017 at $977.96,
and then again on November 24,
2017 at a new stock share value of
$1,186.00 which is an increase of
$208.04, which is a 21.27% increase
in just 76 days.
14. Since the company went public in
1997, the stock in the company has
continued to grow. If you invested
20 years ago, $1,000 dollars on
Amazon's today would be worth
over $491,000
16. Amazon Prime easy ordering
Email when being shipped Confirmation of delivery
Launched in
1997, 1-Click
gives customers
the ability to
make purchases
on the Web with
just one click of
the mouse.
17. Amazon Affiliate Marketing
Use the Amazon
affiliate program to
earn money from
Amazon, by
advertising Amazon
products on
websites, YouTube,
Google, blogs.
18. Energy and Environment
Amazon is focused on
completing solar energy on
their roof tops for 50
fulfillment centers by 2020.
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
commitment to accomplish 100%
renewable energy with the usage of
their wind farms.
19. Recommendations
Hold off on the drones because society is not prepared for
security yet, Example:
We can’t keep packages from being stolen off front porched
now, how will they prevent a drone from being stolen or
worse a package inside being switched/ hacked from
mischief people.
End free shipping on Prime during the holiday Season
Free shipping gets expensive quickly