Rare Footage of Jeff Bezos in 1996 and the beginning of Amazon.com

Rare, Early Unearthed Footage of Jeff Bezos in 1996 talking about Amazon.com in 1996 when the company was just starting out. In this video you will learn the story of when Amazon was just an online bookstore. In a short time, Amazon sold books to all 50 states and over 45 countries and got in a legal battle with Barnes & Nobles over whether Amazon could make the claim that it was the world's largest bookstore. Enjoy this brief "did you know" nugget that features Jeff Bezos in the earliest video of him that exists on the web.

[@rommelb.8070]

He looks even younger now for not having hair 😂🤣

[@AhaCooking]

😂 haha

[@udbhavsharma1882]

That's the power of money 💰 my friend 😉

[@koushikvaraganti3108]

Hey 😂😂

[@JWB671]

And taking HGH and Test as well as a trainer and a personal Chef.

[@pitt5674]

👎👎👎

[@TLOH7]

When you've been 57 years old for the past 25 years...

[@colaaddict782]

in looks he wasnt the luckiest...

[@ashkatmandou]

he looked older when young

[@Anonymous-kw7ls]

Money controls everything.

[@jogmas12]

I guess only the rich have access to the fountain of youth

[@gearsNtools]

Him and Jobs both did!

[@somebody.oncetoldme.3516]

That’s money honey.

[@waitaramwita4923]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ignaciomayenthegoldenrule9618]

Vision in a CEO goes a long way. Anticipating the hard times while you stay focused on what works is best habit.

[@gummywormjim]

Also starting with an algorithm your princeton classmate created and enough overhead to bankroll a dropshipping experiment out of a two car garage in the suburbs. Its not like he started with nothing.

[@buildingcoolstuff6639]

@@gummywormjim "starting with an algorithm your princeton classmate created" Where did you get this information from?

[@psrv97]

Now they sell 45 million products

[@AhaCooking]

Yes bro. It’s simply amazing!

[@njt002]

I bet a lot of our newer generations have no idea Amazon started as a bookseller competing with B& N.

[@adm.60]

Call Kevin Spacey to play this guy in a movie

[@mdabdullah4379]

Now he has got over $190 billion at the cost of an eye and youth.

[@raunaq571]

Why youth ? As a whole, he lived and enjoyed his youth way more than any regular person.

[@cosmonauteable9151]

@@raunaq571 im not sure about that claim friendo. The amount of work this man has poured into this is ming boggling.

[@MatteoTravels]

⁠work can be more fun than wasting your life in clubs or going out with friends, for lots of people. It's about how that thing makes you feel. Some people enjoy being productive and care about their future more than many others.

[@yarixzamendoza6314]

I work for Amazon so this is pretty amazing how far they have come.

[@Python57]

Hope you dont work in the warehouse

[@Kabeyavictoria]

Thinking about the internet and e commerce in the mid 90s yall... genius

[@johnflemingrodrigues8652]

At that time he may not even think that he will be the richest person in the world

[@esthera92]

Started with passion and grew into a powerhouse monopoly of sorts

[@yasamin.ashoori]

Wow let me see ! It's first time that KZbin offers me my favorite video

[@tslomt]

Wow, "time" did a great favour for him.

[@mikewalters]

Proves power is never granted, it is taken

[@remarkablemoonwalker]

He looked 27 years older than he now is..27 years ago.

[@kartaLaLa]

Did he just get LASEK or something 😂

[@AhaCooking]

Thank you for sharing this video!

[@AndorranStairway]

Funny how Amazon was once the small business and Barnes and Noble was the big corporation looking to eat up its competition

[@joem6196]

Ooh shoot...he looked older back then....

[@POSITIVEMILLIONAIRE]

Every Family has Someone Who Breaks the Chain of living paycheck to paycheck.

[@lego4av]

He was not laughing 🤣😁😂😆😆🤣🤣😃

[@John-ct9zs]

Wait, wasn't he a really young guy in 1996? Why does he look at least 40? If not 50 or 60? Elon Musk looks like a kid (with a receding hairline but still a kid) in his 90s interviews, and Mark Zuckerberg looks like a kid in the 2000s, but Bezos looks very middle aged in the 90s.

[@FettyLord]

From a book store to a virtual Mall

[@cpetrizzi]

I think this might turn into something.

[@maykazawa2497]

Starting to get bald 👨‍🦲 1996 😂

[@enriqueolivares6638]

Above all, honesty on buying and selling

[@lulumoon6942]

This version is much more human.

[@nodirsid]

when he still had some hair

[@silverchairsg]

There's probably footage somewhere on KZbin right now of the next big entrepreneur talking about his vision for his company.

[@TheBest-to2sf]

Kevin spacey

[@marcus4554]

Yup he stayed true to his word

[@aaronleedescombes]

Mad respect making billions and going bold unlike Musk.

[@maximilliandirnfeld2442]

oh yea as if elon is not the boldest billionaire on earth ok bro

[@laserillusionstech]

@@maximilliandirnfeld2442 i think he meant bald. Elon was balding as well, but had hair transplants.

[@maximilliandirnfeld2442]

@@laserillusionstech gotcha thx

[@MohitSharma-hy9st]

Bald look doesn't suit everyone, if it would have suited Elon maybe he too would have gone bald.

[@asiddiqi123]

Bold, not Sure. Bald, yeah.

[@karensmetanovska1902]

You lost my Chris Hedges book!

[@gtyu4408]

Inspiration.... 😍

[@QuinoAmino]

Amazon, a modern Gutenberg.

[@wongrichx]

Still has hair! 😂

[@fightingspirit6520]

Balding is not such a bad thing anymore

[@enriqueolivares6638]

Great speech

[@Martin-lc6gb]

First entrepreneur and in home spy equipment and delivering to the whole world 86 individual buyers in stock

[@randomworld4662]

Why always a nerd do something brilliant?

[@ritam8767]

Because jocks are stupid.

[@futureexplorer938]

Because nerds are creative.

[@abikelife1481]

Lol nerds rule the world man!

[@vve2059]

It depends on your stars

[@lulumoon6942]

Less energy wasted on pointless social conventions.

[@usamashahzad4041]

Ok

[@mito88]

books

[@Martin-lc6gb]

Clay molds

[@imawesome1822]

He’s still a dork

[@justinchang312]

Lol

[@DanielK1213th]

one day, you'll sit in your couch and stare into the wall. you'll think, what have I done with my life? Jeff Bezos will be living the life as a king with beautiful women. compare those two lives. now that's scary.

[@alexanderdeadmansche]

He’s buff now

[@Customk123]

@@DanielK1213th Exactly id rather be a dork then be broke and bitter on the internet lol

[@mcrjeily9760]

@@DanielK1213th it’s nice to have beautiful women when you are young not when you are 60. He is a dork and he still has no clue how to deal with women . He sent pics of his P to his girlfriend not knowing that he might be hacked ??? And he’s also not a good person . And you don’t need to have billions to live a great life .

[@kcha2004]

He looks like kevin spacey