The sun was bright, the breeze was blowing, and the roar of huge airplanes flew over people's heads from time to time.
Seattle Airport.
"Bezos, have you carefully checked the other party's identity?"
James felt terrible. He worked overtime all night yesterday and just slept all morning when his friend Jeff Bezos forcibly pulled him out of the bedroom. Then the two of them drove to the airport lobby to wait for their upcoming arrival.
Distinguished guests here.
"Of course it's not wrong." Bezos said with a smile: "The other party is a well-known person, and I have verified all aspects of the information. Besides, he is the one who sent us the money, so he cannot deceive me anyway."
Bezos has very distinct facial features and piercing eyes. He is just thirty-five years old this year and is full of the charm of a successful man. He is full of momentum in every move he makes.
When he was a student, he was a popular figure on campus. He was top-notch in studies and handsome. When he was in his early 20s, he graduated from Princeton University, one of the eight Ivy League schools in the United States. Later, he was directly introduced to a technology company as a programmer.
Accumulate work experience.
Two years later, because of his outstanding abilities, he was hired as the vice president of a private bank and achieved considerable results.
Two years later, Bezos co-founded one of the most successful hedging fund companies on Wall Street at the time, and eventually became the company's youngest senior vice president.
Four years later, the high-spirited Bezos accidentally entered a website while surfing the Internet and saw a number of 2300%!
The number of Internet users is growing at a rate of 2300% every year!
This is a thrilling number.
At that time, Microsoft in Seattle had grown up, Bill Gates was on the cover of Time Magazine, and his deeds were well known to countless people.
When Bezos saw this number, his eyes instantly lit up.
After a week of thinking, he finally made up his mind, hoping that he could achieve great success in the IT industry like Bill Gates and become a trendsetter on the Internet.
Just do what he said, Bezos went through the resignation procedures at a very fast speed, and after a month of market research, he finally took out all his personal funds and founded Qatar, the first online retail company in the United States.
Bra.
However, due to business strategy and publicity reasons, the establishment of Kadabra failed.
Looking into the reason for its failure, it was that it was too ambitious. Instead of becoming a fat man after one bite, it was exhausted to death.
So, after two months, Bezos, who had accumulated enough experience, abandoned his original idea of selling everything, listed 20 types of products, and eliminated them one by one.
Eventually it was reduced to books and music products.
Later, considering the cost, he decided to sell books first.
Books are particularly suitable for display online, and the United States, as a major publishing country, has 1.3 million kinds of books, but only 200,000 to 300,000 kinds of music products.
Therefore, in comparison, the book distribution industry has a larger market space.
You must know that the annual sales of this industry have reached 260 billion U.S. dollars. However, the annual sales of the largest bookstore chain in the United States, the largest bookstore chain in the United States, and the largest bookstore in the world, with more than 700 branches, only account for the total annual sales of this industry.
12% of sales.
This contains huge business opportunities!
Bassos quickly registered an Internet company and renamed the original Kadabra bookstore Amazon.
Since then, under the operation and management of Bezos, Amazon Bookstore has spent two years smoothly.
In May 1997, a prospectus was submitted and the company was successfully listed.
After the listing of the Amazon Bookstore, due to Bezos's personal philosophy, it did not rush forward and expand aggressively after receiving a large amount of investment funds.
Instead, we worked steadily and expanded the scale of Amazon's bookstore step by step. Two years later, the current Amazon Bookstore is almost the same as it was two years ago.
This was the shadow brought to him by Kadabra's failure, which made him always be careful and think carefully in the process of starting a business.
Such a conservative pace also means that its profitability is not as exaggerated as that of other Internet companies, and its stock price has not fluctuated much.
In addition, online stores are not as simple as imagined. As for Amazon alone, although it has performed well after its listing in the past two years, it has also caused a lot of local disputes due to logistics, after-sales and other reasons.
The most important thing is that the world is still dominated by physical bookstores, but the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain is still the giant in this industry.
Even though Amazon Bookstore has been doing well in the past two years, compared to the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain, one of the world's top 500, it is still the difference between an ant and an elephant.
It can be said that it is extremely difficult to catch up with the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain in this industry.
Therefore, in recent days, after much thought, Bezos finally put aside his conservative side and began to carry out the first step in reforming Amazon's bookstore, which is to "increase used book exchange" and other activities. Of course, some more can be added in the future.
Purchase of other commodities.
As a platform, Amazon acts as an intermediary to provide transaction guarantees for both buyers and sellers.
For example, after controlling the buyer's funds, Amazon officials will only transfer the transaction funds to the seller's account after both parties confirm that the transaction is successful and with the buyer's consent.
In this way, Amazon can also use the blank period of logistics transportation to use the funds to do some meaningful things.
But obviously this is illegal.
How to refine the rules and avoid being called by the FBI is what Bezos needs to consider now.
Maybe you can start your old business and register a fund company to manage this part of the fund?
This is considered a major strategy, and it can definitely change Amazon's destiny.
Therefore, whenever Bezos thinks of this incident, his blood boils.
But there are also huge risks, which makes him urgently need to find some funds to lay the foundation stone for this enterprise.
Coincidentally, an entrepreneur from China found him.
Now, with the successful listing of Amazon Bookstore, Bezos can be regarded as a multi-millionaire.
But this can only be regarded as a net worth. Unless he sells out all his shares in Amazon, in terms of cash flow, although he is rich, the funds in hand are not enough to complete this project.
So, Bezos naturally welcomed the money-giving boy who suddenly came to his door.
It is best to be the kind of shareholder who only gives money and does not interfere in the management of the company!
As Bezos thought about this, he saw a plane slowly landing on the ground in the distant sky——
Thanks to Tat Xixit, Sister Bai wants to eat chicken butt, Du Ruofei 0208 for the reward...