Amazon Joins Apple in Climb to $1 Trillion Market Value
- Bezos linked shoppers and products via web to create a giant
- Cloud computing, ads, global expansion keep investors enthused
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Amazon.com Inc. shares rose as much as 1.9 percent, pushing the company briefly beyond a market value of $1 trillion, a milestone Apple Inc. reached last month.
It’s an historic accomplishment for Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, who founded the company in his Seattle garage in 1994 as a small online book seller. Now Bezos is the world’s wealthiest person, running a diversified global enterprise with more than $200 billion in annual sales and more than 575,000 employees.