Jeff Bezos Nonetheless Makes use of One among His First-Ever Desks: Picture

Billionaire Jeff Bezos is reminded of his roots day-after-day.

On Sunday, Bezos’ fiancé, Lauren Sánchez, shared a photograph on Instagram of the Amazon founder working at his desk, coupled with a second photograph that exhibits him on the similar desk years in the past.

It seems, Bezos nonetheless makes use of one of many similar desks from the early days at Amazon.

“Once I walked in on him working this morning, I took this image. I simply love that he’s nonetheless working from one of many first desks which have been round because the starting,” Sanchez penned. “That is the place numerous hours of laborious work meet the center of Day one. Here is to the limitless pursuit of what is attainable.”

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Bezos famously based Amazon as a web based e-book retailer from his storage in 1994. When he began hiring staff for the corporate, he went across the road to House Depot and made “door desks” for workers to make use of — a.okay.a. desks with surfaces that have been simply constructed door panels.

Amazon says hundreds of staff around the globe nonetheless use modern-day variations of Bezos’ authentic ingenious design.

“We constructed door desks as a result of it was the most affordable approach we may assist a desk,” Amazon’s fifth-ever worker, Nico Lovejoy, mentioned in an organization weblog put up 5 years in the past. “A whole lot of the issues that we do are scrappy by nature. As long as the scrappy resolution works.”

The door desk has turn into such a staple in Amazon tradition that the corporate even offers out a Door Desk Award, meant to signify the corporate’s core values of frugality and creativity.

Nevertheless, Lovejoy maintained that although the concept was sensible, Bezos would possibly wish to persist with enterprise.

“You’d by no means wish to rent Jeff Bezos as a carpenter,” Lovejoy wrote. “He is a lot better at different issues. I believe he’d inform you a similar factor.”

Amazon was up over 60% yr over yr as of Monday afternoon.