Which company was founded in 1994 as Cadabra, Inc.?

Amazon was founded in 1994 as Cadabra, Inc. by Jeff Bezos.

Bezos initially planned an online bookstore because books offered a huge number of titles that a physical shop could not stock. The company changed its name from Cadabra after concerns that the original name sounded too much like “cadaver” in conversation. Amazon launched its website in 1995.

The name Amazon referred to the Amazon River, suggesting scale and breadth. The business later expanded from books into cloud computing, digital advertising, streaming, logistics, devices, and many retail categories.

Amazon’s market capitalization grew far beyond its early retail identity. Its expansion into Amazon Web Services became especially important because AWS developed into one of the world’s largest cloud-computing businesses.