Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @08:38PM (#26009584)

1) The name "Amazon.com" was chosen in 1994 (or possibly January 1995). 2) Subsequently, the company never considered any other name 3) I'm older than you and Jeff 4) I don't have a photographic memory 5) I've been asked twice in court, on Amazon's behalf, to remember things that happened/took place/were done back then.

[ EDIT: added "subsequently" for clarity ]

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by teh_klev on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @08:46PM (#26009643)

Ok fine, but in your original post you don't provide any dates, and you assert that:

> It had a name, and that name was "Cadabra".

Now you're saying something different. So it's one thing or another. Maybe just clarify the "when" of these things as you remember them. Not having a go at you.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by GavinMcG on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @09:09PM (#26009767)

This seems like nitpicking.

Especially because "Amazon" being chosen in '94 doesn't mean Cadabra wasn't the name it was chosen to replace. How is Paul "saying something different"?

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by ChrisIsTaken on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:50AM (#26023823)

Registration for Cadabra was filed in July 1994. I suspect this was chosen because Bezos' attorney had discovered that his first preference "Abracadabra" was taken.

Amazon was a much better choice.

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