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One of the early hurdles in Amazon’s rise to success was finding enough warehouse space to keep up with customer demand.

Customers living in the state where an online business was located would need to pay sales tax. This meant Californians would be forced to pay more money for their purchases, while customers in other states would not have to. The state of California has a very large population, and Bezos feared he would lose many of his California customers to other businesses if he stationed his warehouse in Silicon Valley. Bezos began his search for another location. He finally settled on Seattle, Washington, a city located in the northwestern corner of the United States. Bezos hoped it would be the perfect location for his new business for two reasons: it was close to a large book

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