Jeff Bezos is not the founder of Amazon.com.
Amazon.com ( [ ˈæməzɒn ] or [ ˈæməzən ] ) , also called Amazon , is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5 , 1994 , by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle , Washington . Jeff Bezos . Amazon.com is currently the world 's largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web , as well as being the world 's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services , through its Amazon Web Services arm . He is the founder and manufacturer of Blue Origin ( founded in 2000 ) with test flights to space which started in 2015 , and plans for commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018 . The Washington Post . In 2013 , its longtime controlling family , the Graham family , sold the newspaper to billionaire entrepreneur and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos for $ 250 million in cash .