[Infographic] All About Amazon: Interesting Facts, Stats, History Timeline & More

• Despite being the Amazon’s CEO, Bezos only makes $81,840 per year
• Amazon went from 1 category (Books) to 17 main categories and 143 Sub-Categories
• Number of Amazon.com’s employees -132,600
• Amazon spent $158 million on Google search ads in 2013, more than anyone
• To help ease the burden on its warehouse workers, Amazon now uses robots to assist in retrieving items
• Last year, when Amazon’s site went down for 49 minutes the company missed sales of nearly $4.8 million
• Number of Items that Amazon sold on Cyber Monday, 2013 : 37 Million which is 428/Second
• Amazon.com employees spend two days every two years working at the customer service desk, even the CEO

Source: Techiesense