UKNM: Re: What's in a name

[Nick Horley]

> Amazon

> It's a well-chosen name


Amazon wasn't Bezos' first choice of name (according to Robert Spector's

book). He was going to go for Cadabra, but one of the first people he tried

it on misheard it as "cadaver". In those days web directories were mostly in

alphabetical order, so Bezos read the whole A section of the directory, and

picked Amazon (after briefly considering "Aard") because it "could be

anything we wanted to make it" and it was "big".


Nick



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