Early Amazon: The end

I spent several more years at Amazon. Amazon grew and grew.

Amazon expanded from a tiny online bookstore into an online superstore, selling books, music, videos, software, video games, electronics, toys, hardware, clothing, jewelry, and much, much more.

In later years, I went on to lead the software team in the Personalization group. We did great things. I am proud of everything we accomplished.

But, those first years will always hold a special place in my memories. It is something I likely will see only once in my lifetime.

Below are links to all the posts in my Early Amazon series. I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

The Early Amazon series:

1. The series
2. The first week
3. Group discounts
4. Door desks
5. BookMatcher
6. boy-am-i-hard-to-please
7. Inventory cache
8. Dogs
9. Xmas at the warehouse
10. Splitting the website
11. Pagers, pagers
12. Interviews
13. Similarities
14. 1996 holiday party
15. Oracle down
16. Recommendations
17. Shopping cart recommendations
18. Just do it
19. Auctions
20. The end

I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to have worked at Amazon.com along side such talented, dedicated, and passionate people. It was a remarkable experience.

Update: See also my post about Amazon.cult.