company report for Amazon for eecs441 fall 2016

1. Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company
Chenhao Li (lchenhao)
Oct.26, 2016

2. Products

3. History
Retailing:
Online book store, 1994
Music, electronics, and much more, 1999
Fulfillment by Amazon, 2006

4. History
Beyond retailing:
Amazon Web Service (AWS), 2002
Hardware: Kindle, Fire tablet, Fire TV
Voice-controlled Echo device, 2015

5. Financial
• Market Cap: 384.76B, Top 4
• Profitable since 2015
• Revenue: 120.64B
• Stock doubled in one year!

6. Business model
• Sell products on retail marketplace
• Amazon prime membership fee
• Amazon Web Service 10% VS 84%
Q2 2016 Amazon Financial Result, in millions

7. Secret Sauce
• Customer-Centric Company
• Most innovative company
• Big picture

8. Competition
Competitors
Online retail
Amazon Web Service
Voice assistant
devices

9. Prediction
• Continue grow!
• Profitable AWS
• 4th pillar?
• Failure in artificial intelligence

10. Q&A