How world's top brands got started

Online Bookstore (1994)

Founders - Jeff Bezos - First location - Bellevue, WA

Amazon began as an online bookstore in way back in 1994. Founder Jeff Bezos decided at first to call the bookstore “Cadabra,” He later changed the name to Amazon.com, Inc. a few months later, after a lawyer misheard its original name as "cadaver.".