E-commerce (Amazon, eBay)
Comercio electrónico (Amazon, eBay)
- Date
- 1994-1995 · confidence high
- Place
- Amazon, Seattle, and eBay, San Jose, California, United States
- Credited to
- Jeff Bezos (Amazon, July 1995); Pierre Omidyar (eBay, September 1995); first secure sale on NetMarket (1994)
- People
- 👤 Jeff Bezos1964–👤 Pierre Omidyar1967–
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Online shops and marketplaces that sell to anyone with a connection, with encrypted card payment and user reviews. They reshaped retail worldwide.
What it led to
- Last-mile logistics, robotic warehouses and the platform economy
- The decline of physical retail and concentration among a few giants
- Amazon Web Services as a spin-off that created the cloud
Built on
Made possible
- E-ink and e-reader (Kindle)1997-2007
- Cloud computing (AWS S3 and EC2)2006
- robotic logistics
- mobile payments