Should We Be Thanking Jeff Bezos?

Love or hate him, Bezos, who steps down as Amazon CEO on July 5, has left his mark

Lance Ulanoff
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Published in
6 min readJul 4, 2021

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Amazon’s departing founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in 2016 (Credit: Lance Ulanoff)

Was there ecommerce before Jeff Bezos and Amazon? Not by my recollection. I can still close my eyes and see that first simplistic site and Amazon logo.

Honestly, it didn’t look like much, and we all wondered if what they were doing — selling…

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Lance Ulanoff
Marker
Writer for

Tech expert, journalist, social media commentator, amateur cartoonist and robotics fan.