Company · Retail · Technology · founded 1994
Amazon
Company founded by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, spanning online retail, cloud computing, streaming and AI.
Includes Whole Foods Market.
Of the 6 people here linked to Amazon, 2 are founders and 3 are still there. 4 of them also appear at Google. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
6 people at Amazon
Founder Still there
Role
Founder; president and CEO; executive chairman since July 2021, 1994–now
Source
· high confidence
Technology 2 / 1
Jeff Bezos
Founder, Amazon
comfortable · elite · college degree
Board Still there
Role
Member of the board of directors, 2019–now
Source
· medium confidence. Listed among directors on Wikipedia’s Amazon page; the Nooyi page says she has served since February 2019.
Consumer Products 4 / 8
Indra Nooyi
Former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
middle-class · some · graduate degree
Founder Past
Role
Co-founder and chief executive officer, 1980–2022 (via Whole Foods Market)
Source
· high confidence. Wikipedia also says he was chairman of the board from 1978 until December 2009 and remained a board member after that; no later board status is stated.
Retail · Food & Beverage 3 / 1
John Mackey
Co-founder and longtime CEO, Whole Foods Market
professional-class · some · some college
Investor Past
Role
Early backer of Jeff Bezos through Kleiner Perkins
Source
· medium confidence. The page says Kleiner Perkins funded Amazon.com and that he backed Bezos. No board seat or year is stated there; the Kleiner Perkins page gives an $8 million initial investment.
Venture Capital · Technology 2 / 0
John Doerr
Venture capitalist; chairman of Kleiner Perkins
comfortable · well-connected · graduate degree
Joined by acquisition Past
Role
Oversaw integration of Partpic's technology into the Amazon mobile app, 2016
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia gives no years for her time at Amazon; the 2016 start is the acquisition year.
Technology 3 / 8
Jewel Burks Solomon
Founder of Partpic, acquired by Amazon; co-founder, Collab Capital
entrepreneurial middle-class · some · college degree
Connected companies
Other companies that share profiled people with Amazon.
Google
4 shared: John Doerr, Andrew Ng, Jeff Bezos, Jewel Burks Solomon
37signals
1 shared: Jeff Bezos
AT&T
1 shared: Andrew Ng
Baidu
1 shared: Andrew Ng
Boston Consulting Group
1 shared: Indra Nooyi
Intel
1 shared: John Doerr
Kleiner Perkins
1 shared: John Doerr
Motorola
1 shared: Indra Nooyi
PepsiCo
1 shared: Indra Nooyi
The Washington Post
1 shared: Jeff Bezos
Twitter / X
1 shared: John Doerr