Amazon has reached the top spot on the Fortune Global 500, becoming the world's largest company by revenue, and the milestone has prompted Jeff Bezos to look back at how the business began. The story ties Amazon's current scale to its earliest days as a startup operating out of a garage in Bellevue, Washington.
Bezos' reflection centers on 1995, when Amazon was still a small operation working from a makeshift setup that included a desk fashioned from a wooden door slab. While he does not present the company's rise as an accident, the contrast between that garage origin and Amazon's current position at No. 1 underscores how far the business has grown.
The company is also entering a new phase as it pours about $200 billion into artificial intelligence this year. According to the description of the report, Bezos sees this next act as critical, with the potential to shape Amazon's direction over the coming decade.
The moment captures both Amazon's history and its future: a business that started modestly in Bellevue and now sits atop the Fortune Global 500, while preparing to make AI central to what comes next. For Amazon, the latest ranking is not only a marker of size, but also a sign of how much is riding on its next major bet.
