Jeff Bezos

One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com amazon – click on the image below for more information. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com – Amazon’s business model is deceptively simple: Make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won’t think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: “Buy now with one click.”Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique combination of character...Read Full Story

Some billionaire executives pick up hobbies like golf, fishing, buying a sports team, but not Jeff Bezos, he instead goes hunting, hunting for rockets. Jeff Bezos has funded a team to scour the Atlantic Ocean floor in search of rockets. Wednesday, Bezos posted on his expedition blog the discovery of two massive F-1 engines thought to have propelled the massive Saturn V rockets in to space. While Bezos admits that most of his work was spent aboard the ship’s cabin he credits his team’s hard...Read Full Story

They always say to be nice to people while you're on your way up, so they will catch you when you are on your way down. Back in 1998, when Henry Blodget was a senior Internet analyst for CIBC Oppenheimer, he made a name for himself, and for Amazon, when he predicted that Amazon's stock would go above $400 a share. A month later, that is exactly what happened, putting both of them on the map. Now Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is returning the favor. Bezos, along with some existing investors, will be...Read Full Story

One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com amazon – click on the image below for more information. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com – Amazon’s business model is deceptively simple: Make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won’t think twice. It almost can be summed up by the button on every page: “Buy now with one click.” Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO, whose unique combination of character...Read Full Story

Chief executive Henry Blodget says Business Insider wants to 'emulate the customer-first success' of AmazonAmazon founder Jeff Bezos is leading a fresh round of investment in the financial news site Business Insider, chief executive and editor-in-chief Henry Blodget announced on Friday.The $5m investment will help develop the site's technology and product teams, editorial operations, sales and marketing and subscription and events, and brings the site's total funding to $18.6m over the past...Read Full Story