The dog liked to attend meetings and had frequent tummy troubles on being overfed by employees.

There is also another building at Amazon's Seattle campus named after Rufus, a Welsh corgi, who was a pet to an employee couple. Amazon has a building named after its first customer, John Wainwright, who on Ap(much before the site opened to the general public) purchased Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter for $27.95.Ħ. It blows all other rivers away.' The domain name was registered on November 1, 1994.ĥ. 'Amazon' because, 'This is not only the largest river in the world, it's many times larger than the next biggest river. 'A' because website listings then were arranged alphabetically and therefore a name beginning with an 'A' would appear towards the top.

Bezos finally zeroed in on Amazon as the name of his company after pouring through the 'A' section of the dictionary. Proposed names for the company included Cadabra Inc, (after Captain Picard's frequent command in Star Trek),, ,, , and .Ĥ. This meant that given the relatively small population of the state of Washington, the company would be required only to collect state sales tax from only a small percentage of its customers.ģ. A reason why Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and not in California or New York is because according to a US Supreme Court ruling merchants did not have to collect sales tax in states where they did not have physical operations.

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