Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.
Founded by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com website started in 1995 as a place to buy books because of the unique customer experience the Web could offer book lovers. Bezos believed that only the Internet could offer customers the convenience of browsing a selection of millions of book titles in a single sitting. During the first 30 days of business, Amazon fulfilled orders for customers in 50 states and 45 countries - all shipped from his Seattle-area garage.
Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.
Cockroach Labs is the company behind CockroachDB, the distributed SQL database built to survive anything and scale without limits, and Cockroach Continuum, the Agentic Database Cloud built on it. Founded in 2015, Cockroach Labs set out to solve a problem the industry had accepted as unsolvable: transactional correctness and always-on resilience at the same time, across regions and clouds. Today CockroachDB runs the systems companies cannot afford to have fail, from payments and banking to identity, gaming, and AI infrastructure, at organizations including Nvidia, OpenAI, DoorDash, Bose, Cisco, Coreweave, and Hard Rock Digital. With Continuum, that foundation now runs entire database estates as one system, built for the era when software is written, run, and used by machines. Cockroach Labs is headquartered in New York City with teams worldwide
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