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In 1994, Jeff Bezos left his Vice President position on Wall Street to take advantage of the booming internet business. He started a company called "Cadabra", but ended up changing the name to Amazon before the website launch in 1995. The company is based out of Seattle with multiple offices downtown. Amazon has a lot to offer. It is an online retailer where one can purchase pretty much anything, as well as offering Amazon products such as the Kindle and Amazon Fire. Amazon also has a subscription service, Amazon Prime, that streams movies, TV shows, and music. The estimated worth of Amazon is 250 billion, which is more than Walmart. In 2014 there was an estimated 154,000 employees in Seattle and Amazon warehouses across the country. Amazon is the first place I go when online shopping and is where I bought all of my christmas gifts. It makes shopping much easier because it is shipped to my house within two days. Amazon's stock, AMZN, is $607.05 a share currently. In the past year, the lowest was $285.25 and the highest was $696.44.

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