business Overview
HQplaceSeattle Area
BusinessE-commerce (Amazon.com) and cloud computing (AWS)
Founded
access_time 29 years ago
(founded Jul 5, 1994)
TrueUp
Trajectory Score
77
/100
Employees
1,540,000
TrueUp
Rank
#1
Valuation
$1,237 B
TrueUp
Rank
#4
all-time high: $1,936 B (-36%)
1 year ago: $1,233 B (+0%)
5 years ago: $836 B (+48%)
10 years ago: $138 B (+796%)
Public / PrivatePublic ($AMZN)
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Amazon is an E-commerce (Amazon.com) and cloud computing (AWS) company with 6,331 job openings. It is currently valued at $1,237 billion as a public company. 1,540,000 people work at Amazon. The company was founded in 1994.

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work_outline Job Openings
6,331open jobs
TrueUp
Rank
#2
local_atm Financials
Valuation
$1,237 B
TrueUp
Rank
#4
52 wk high: $1,504 B (-18%)
1 year ago: $1,233 B (+0%)
5 years ago: $836 B (+48%)
10 years ago: $138 B (+796%)
Revenue
trailing 12 months
$502 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#4
Revenue growth
vs. same quarter
last year
14.7%
TrueUp
Rank
#258
MULTIPLES
Valuation / Revenue2.5x
Valuation per employee$0.8 million
Revenue per employee$0.3 million
phonelink Products
Top products
- Amazon.com
- Amazon Prime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Other important products
- Amazon Alexa
- Amazon Echo
- Amazon Fire TV
- Amazon Advertising
- Amazon Go
- Amazon Kindle
- Amazon Prime Video
- Whole Foods (acq in 2017 for $13.7B)
- Twitch (acq in 2014 for $970M)
- PillPack (acq in 2019 for $753M)
- Ring (acq in 2018 for $1B)
- Audible (acq in 2008 for $300M)
- IMDB (acq in 1998 for $55M)
Primary customer type
emoji_people B2C+business B2B
Is this really a tech company?
Partly
remove Network effects
close Zero marginal costs to produce
check Product improves over time
close Zero cost to expand globally
close Self-serve onboarding + Zero cost of sales
emoji_people Culture
Glassdoor employee reviews
74%
would recommend Amazon to a friend (159,948 reviews)
worse than 55% of tech co's
79%
approve of the CEO Andrew Jassy (27,136 reviews)
worse than 64% of tech co's
Company mission"Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company."
Company principles
- Customer Obsession
- Ownership
- Invent and Simplify
- Are Right A Lot
- Learn and Be Curious
- Hire and Develop the Best
- Insist on the Highest Standards
- Think Big
- Bias for Action
- Frugality
- Earn Trust
- Dive Deep
- Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
- Deliver Results
Company culture links
Companies founded by former employees
- Flipkart (founded 2007)
- Hulu (founded 2007)
- Twilio (founded 2008)
- Quora (founded 2009)
- Instacart (founded 2012)
- Jet.com (founded 2014)
public Climate change efforts
Carbon-neutral target: 2040, $2B “Climate Pledge Fund”
code Open Source
Open source citizenship
sentiment_dissatisfied OK
TrueUp
Rank
#71
Top open source projects
25.6kajaxorg / ace
21.6kfirecracker-microvm / firecracker
9.7kaws / chalice
6.2ko3de / o3de
menu_book Popular books and movies
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filter_list Job Levels
LevelJob Titles
Level 4 (L4)SDE I
Level 5 (L5)Eng: SDE II / PM: PM
Level 6 (L6)Eng: SDE III (Senior SDE) / PM: Senior PM
Level 7 (L7)Eng: Principal SDE, Senior Manager SDE / PM: Principal PM, Senior Manager PM
Level 8 (L8)Eng: Senior Principal SDE, Director SDE / PM: Senior Principal PM, Director PM
Level 10 (L10)VP
Level 11 (L11)SVP
Level 12 (L12)CEO
history Other info
Associated billionaires
(source:Forbes)
$112.3B - Jeff Bezos
$26.4B - MacKenzie Scott
IPO dateMay 15, 1997
(26 years ago)
Top owners at IPO
47.4% - Jeffrey P. Bezos
16.3% - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Founder ownership at IPO47.4%
Implied founder equity split
100% - Jeffrey P. Bezos
Unsuccessful products trending_down
- Amazon Fire Phone
- Amazon Auction
- Amazon Dash
- Quidsi
- Amazon Restaurants
- Amazon Spark
- Amazon HQ2
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