For today's Business Column, I share the book that made the biggest impression on me in the last 6 months. After having greatly appreciated "The Everything Store", Brad Stone's first book explaining the birth of Amazon from 1994 to 2013, the author is back to document the totally phenomenal growth the online giant has experienced in the last 8 years.
To give you a good idea of the difference in growth that the organization has experienced, we need only look at some pretty telling metrics.
Amazon in 2013:
Market capitalization at 189 billion
Revenues of 74 billion dollars
Profits of 274 million dollars
Number of employees at 117,000
Value of Jeff Bezos' fortune: 27.2 billion
If we look at 2021 now;
Market capitalization of 1 trillion 840 billion
Revenues for the year 2020 of 386 billion
Net profits of 21 billion dollars
Number of employees: 1.3 million
Value of Jeff Bezos' fortune of 209 billion
If we analyze these numbers more closely, we can notice that Jeff Bezos' current fortune is more significant than the company's value in 2013. One more reason to talk about the total evolution of the company in the last few years.
My email: agagne@j7media.com
To get Amazon Unbound: https://amzn.to/3ihZAEL
*This episode is only available in French.
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