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Amazon disclosed the 2019 salary and total compensation of its top executives including its CEO, and it detailed the issues on which shareholders will vote at its annual meeting in May. The company revealed that […]
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos published a letter to employees on Saturday in which he revealed the company had placed orders for millions of face masks for employees who cannot work from home and […]
The hunt for Amazon’s second headquarters, dubbed HQ2, is over, and the Seattle-based powerhouse has selected two East Coast locations: New York City and Arlington, Virginia (across the Potomac River from Washington, DC). “The new […]
What if you took the principles of running an ecommerce marketplace and applied them to a nonprofit educational operation, with the child as “customer”? Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and his wife MacKenzie, launched […]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Wednesday he’s taking the company’s longstanding partnership with retail chain Best Buy to a “new level.” The companies are collaborating on new TVs that Best Buy will sell exclusively in-store […]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos opened up about some Marketplace initiatives in a letter to shareholders where he seemed more open than usual, discussing the company culture and its willingness to embrace failure. For many years, […]
For the top brass at Amazon, equity in the company has long been the primary method of compensation, with salaries and other cash rewards so common to other firms taking a backseat to stock-based rewards. […]
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said the company has a succession plan (“for me and all of our senior executives”), but clearly from this Geekwire article, he’s having too much fun as CEO to get people thinking […]
Amazon created some buzz on Wednesday afternoon when it posted a tweet inviting people to join Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos for a launch event on June 18. An accompanying link takes visitors to a page […]
This July marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of a little bookselling website called Amazon.com. In 1997, three years after founding Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos wrote in a letter to shareholders that it was Day […]