Amazon’s humble history: Jeff Bezos used a rented garage as an office and held team meetings at a local Barnes & Noble

fortune.com/2025/07/16/jeff-bezos-amazon-history-rented-garage-barnes-noble-team-meetings

Jeff Bezos’ trajectory from a rented Bellevue garage to the helm of a $2.4 trillion enterprise is now business legend. In the summer of 1994, Jeff Bezos left a fledgling Wall Street career and moved to Bellevue, Washington, with a vision: to build an online bookstore that could one day…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-07-16 20:12:02.
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