Prime real estate: Original Amazon House up for sale
The house where Jeff Bezos founded online shopping mammoth Amazon is up for sale, offering one lucky buyer the chance to own a piece of internet history.
Bezos and his then wife MacKenzie Scott were renting the single-story, three-bedroom home near Seattle in the mid 1990s when they began selling books online from the garage.
Amazon lore holds that the garage was outfitted only with a computer, basic office supplies and a desk constructed from a door bought from a home improvement center.
Originally the company shipped only books – Amazon says the first one was titled Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought.
But within a few short years, it became the default choice for online shoppers all over the world, pushing its current market capitalisation to a staggering US$1.6 trillion.
The 1,540-square-foot home, which has an asking price of just under US$2.3 million, was “meticulously rebuilt” in 2001, according to the agent’s listing, so not much remains of the Bezos era.
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But, photos show the garage has a recreation of the original “amazon.com” banner that Bezos had back in the day. AFP
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