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> It had a name, and that name was "Cadabra". Lol, so your take is that you have a better handle on the history of Amazon than its founder? He is likely referr
by xibalba 6y ago
> It had a name, and that name was "Cadabra".
Lol, so your take is that you have a better handle on the history of Amazon than its founder? He is likely referring to a point in time when Amazon was just an idea.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoThe second employee is probably actually more trustworthy than PR signed by the founder.
- meepmorp 6y ago>> ps. amazon employee #2 You know, there's actually a pretty good chance that he's not pulling this out of his ass.
- xibalba 6y agoAnd Bezos, who wrote the email, was employee 0. So, by that logic, Bezos claim > employee #2's claim.
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- herpderperator 6y agohttps://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-jeff-bezos-chose-company-name-2018-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-jeff-bezos-chose-comp...
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoThis story is incorrect. I don't know how Brad Stone could have got this wrong, because I told him the actual origin of the name. It did not come from looking up words in a dictionary. It came from a documentary that Jeff watched about the Amazon river. The concept that particular stuck with him was that the Amazon is not just the biggest river in the world, but is 10x larger than the next largest river. In addition to the alphabetic sorting benefits of the name (important back then), Jeff loved the size metaphor.