The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (49 page)

Jeff Bezos with Junglee executives (l-r) Brian Lent, Rakesh Mathur, and Ram Shriram, an early Google investor.
(Photograph courtesy of Brian Lent)

Bezos helps process toy orders at the short-lived fulfillment center in McDonough, Georgia.
(© David Burnett/Contact Press Images)

Senior vice president Jeff Wilke, who rebuilt Amazon’s fulfillment network.
(© Brian Smale)

Bezos stands on a Segway in 2002 as the ill-fated electric-powered transporter goes on sale exclusively at Amazon for $5,000.
(Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Jeff Bezos rings the bell to open the NASDAQ trading session on Friday, September 7, 2001.
(Bloomberg)

Jeff Bezos demonstrates an educational toy called Gus Gutz to talk-show host Jay Leno during his appearance on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
at the NBC studios in Burbank on December 29, 1999.
(Reuters)

Bezos and tennis pro Anna Kournikova after an exhibition round of tennis at New York’s Grand Central Terminal to promote Amazon’s new apparel store, August 22, 2003.
(Evan Agostini/Getty Images)

Jeff Bezos laughs with Google cofounder Sergey Brin at the Allen and Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 2007. Bezos was among the original investors in Google.
(Rick Wilking/Reuters)

Bezos introduces the original Kindle e-reader at a news conference in New York City on November 19, 2007.
(Mark Lennihan/AP Photo)

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos in 2009.
(© Patrick McMullan/Photograph by Patrick McMullan)

Bezos introduces the Kindle Fire tablet in 2011. The device intensified the brewing competition between Amazon and Apple.
(Bloomberg)

An Amazon employee demonstrates the Kindle Fire to reporters after a news conference.
(EPA/Justin Lane)

NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver (third from right) takes a tour of the Kent, Washington, headquarters of Blue Origin, Bezos’s private space-exploration company.
(Bill Ingalls/NASA)