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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rewards like money make it easy for most Amazonians to embrace the company's hyperyouthful, workaholic Weltanschauung. "Everybody's always talking about books, music, videos, computers," says Moe. "And everybody works really, really hard. It's that exhaustion-exhilaration feeling you had in college in finals week. But here, it's 24/7...
Amazon trains an elite group of gift wrappers to "make it look like Mom's." Each worker processes 30 packages an hour (those who fail are reassigned to other jobs). For its busiest season yet, Amazon's warehouses are stocked with 4.4 million yards of ribbon and 7.8 million sq. ft. of wrapping paper--which if laid flat would more than cover Disneyland...
Industrial players are also getting in on the online-auction craze, driving down the cost of equipment by bidding to buy it directly from suppliers. There are business-to-business sites for construction equipment ironmall.com and for farm machinery like cotton pickers farmbid.com) Bulk quantities of latex paint are up for auction at paintandcoatings.com and pulpandpaperonline.com has basket centrifuges...
...site. "I wanted to reinforce the notion that if you're going to bring a complaint about someone, do it out in the open," says Omidyar. "You can't come running to Daddy." He had one other proviso: if traders are going to complain about people they don't like, they should be willing to say something nice about people they...
...lines) and worked as a marketing executive at Disney. At first it didn't look as if she was going to come. She had strong ties to the East Coast--kids in school and a husband who was a top brain surgeon at Massachusetts General--and eBay seemed like a lark. But looking at the numbers and getting a sense of the passion people felt for eBay, she was hooked...