20 Jahre Amazon

It’s easy to forget that in general here in Germany, people think of Amazon primarily as an online bookseller.

Amazon Homepage 1995

Today, as it nears its 20th anniversary, it’s the Everything Store, a company with around $75 billion in annual revenue, a $140 billion market value, and few discernible limits to its growth.

In the past few months alone, it launched a marketplace in India, opened a website to sell high-end art, introduced another Kindle reading device and three tablet computers, made plans to announce a set-top box for televisions, and funded the pilot episodes of more than a dozen TV shows. Amazon’s marketplace hosts the storefronts of countless smaller retailers. 

Amazon Web Services handles the computer infrastructure of thousands of technology companies, universities, and government agencies. 

When you get older, you slow down. That’s not good, and it’s not something you want to encourage; at least that is my experience. It’s easy enough to convince yourself that you ought to take it easy, but that is not a good strategy. Push yourself to your present limit, and then a bit further next time, and keep that up. The result is good.

So, Mr. Jeff Bezos, my main wish for 2014 is that you don't slow down yet!