Amazon was founded in 1994 under which original name?

Amazon was founded in 1994 under the original name Cadabra.

Jeff Bezos established the company in July 1994 as an online bookstore project. The name “Cadabra” referred to the magical phrase “abracadabra,” but Bezos changed it after a lawyer reportedly misheard it as “cadaver.” The company was renamed Amazon, inspired by the Amazon River, before its online store launched.

Amazon began selling books because a digital catalog could offer far more titles than a physical bookstore. It later expanded into music, electronics, household goods, marketplace services, logistics, streaming, devices, and cloud computing. Amazon Web Services became a major business and helped transform the company from an online retailer into a diversified technology and infrastructure company.

Amazon is often among the world’s largest companies by market capitalization, although its ranking changes with share prices. The company went public in 1997. “Relentless” was also considered as a name and remains associated with a domain that redirects to Amazon, but it was not the company’s original name.