
Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. It is the largest Internet company by revenue in the world and the second largest employer in the United States. It has been named one of the most prestigious tech companies to work for in the US for multiple years by Forbes Magazine. Amazon's stock price was around $2 in 1997 IPO and reached $2000 in 2018 - grew 1000 times in 21 years.