by the time she was hired in 1996 to run marketing hello, amazon.com. amazon headquarters had moved from the bezos garage to actual offices in downtown seattle. it was definitely startup feel. the first building, it was a dump. jeff thought that it was too fancy for us. from w there was no air-conditioning, stained carpets, but we loved it. this is a solid core door. the first thing you did when you started at amazon is you built your own desk. greg hart joined amazon in 1997, working in product management and mavlthing for books. today he manages amazon s foray into prime. was it truly frugal to save money? that s exactly how it started was frugality, but it s a good symbol of the mind set jeff wanted to create.
bezos started his own company, an online bookstore. by the end of the year, that company had a name, amazon. i went to www.amazon.com and started searching for books and was immediately hooked. thank you for calling amazon.com. by the time she was hired in 1996 to run marketing, amazon headquarters had moved from the bezos garage to actual offices in downtown seattle. it was a start-up feel. the first building, it was a dump. jeff thought it was too fancy for us. there was no air-conditioning. stained carpets, but we loved it. the first thing that you did when you started at amazon is you built your own desk. greg joined amazon in 1997, working in product management