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From startup to success, check out this quick look at the history of Amazon.

The second choice Bezos needed to make was to decide where he would start his business. He had lived in New York before he quit his job, but Bezos needed to find a location near a warehouse that sold and shipped all kinds of books to retail bookstores, so he could send the books straight to customers in record time. The West Coast of the United States seemed like a great place to settle down. Plenty of other technological businesses were opening up there, which led to a part of Northern California becoming known as Silicon Valley (Silicon is a type of metal used in electronic chips). At first, Bezos considered Silicon Valley to be a great place to start a business that relied on the Internet, but he decided against it for tax reasons.

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Story of a Startup