In 1997 Amazon had not yet invented Prime, Marketplace, Alexa or AWS.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
The evidence is the person's or their organisation's own records.
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
True: Amazon's launch dates for Prime, its third-party Marketplace (including predecessors such as Auctions and zShops), the Alexa voice assistant and AWS all fall after 1997. Mostly true: all four came after 1997 except for a minor caveat, such as an early internal precursor of one product. Mixed: one or two of the four existed at Amazon by 1997. False: most or all of them existed at Amazon in 1997. Alexa Internet, the unrelated web-analytics company Amazon bought in 1999, does not count as Amazon's Alexa.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (11)
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E1 Amazon.com Celebrates Fifth Anniversary; Timeline Illustrates Milestones and Little Known Facts About Leading Online Retailer's First Five Years Amazon.com (press.aboutamazon.com) · 12 July 2000 Own record
“September 1999 -- Amazon zShops launches, enabling anyone to offer merchandise”
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E2 Amazon.com Celebrates Fifth Anniversary; Timeline Illustrates Milestones and Little Known Facts About Leading Online Retailer's First Five Years Amazon.com (press.aboutamazon.com) · 12 July 2000 Own record
“March 1999 -- Amazon Auctions opens, bringing virtual, gavel-dropping fun to”
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E3 Last update: 6/19/2006 Author: SCCI File: Timeline History Q1 ... Amazon.com Investor Relations (media.corporate-ir.net) · 19 June 2006 Own record
“2002 Launches Marketplace”
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E4 Last update: 6/19/2006 Author: SCCI File: Timeline History Q1 ... Amazon.com Investor Relations (media.corporate-ir.net) · 19 June 2006 Own record
“2003 Launches Amazon Web Services”
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E5 Amazon.com, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed by Amazon.com, Inc.)
“Amazon.com had no revenue for this segment in 1997.”
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E6 Amazon.com, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed by Amazon.com, Inc.)
“Searching. A primary feature of Amazon.com Web sites is their interactive, searchable catalogs of millions of books, music products, DVD/videos, toys, electronics, software, video games and home improvement products.”
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E7 Amazon.com, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed by Amazon.com, Inc.)
“On May 15, 1997, the Company completed an initial public offering of 18 million shares of its common stock.”
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E8 Amazon.com Announces Record Free Cash Flow Fueled by Lower Prices and Free Shipping; Introduces New Express Shipping Program -- Amazon Prime Amazon.com, Inc. (press.aboutamazon.com) · 2 February 2005 Own record
“Today the Company also introduced "Amazon Prime," Amazon.com's first ever membership program.”
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E9 Alexa at five: Looking back, looking forward Amazon Science · 6 November 2019 Own record
“on November 6, 2014, a small multidisciplinary team launched Amazon Echo, with the aspiration of revolutionizing daily convenience for our customers using artificial intelligence (AI).”
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E10 Amazon.com Launches Three Innovations to Advance E-Commerce for Shoppers, Sellers Amazon.com, Inc. (press.aboutamazon.com) · 30 September 1999 Own record
“Amazon.com zShops is a new place on the Amazon.com site (www.amazon.com) where any seller can establish an online store, thus overcoming the distribution barriers”
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E11 Amazon.com Launches Three Innovations to Advance E-Commerce for Shoppers, Sellers Amazon.com, Inc. (press.aboutamazon.com) · 30 September 1999 Own record
“Items are clearly and conveniently arranged as being available at Amazon.com, Amazon.com zShops, Amazon.com Auctions, and other online merchants.”
Reasoning
The claim resolves true: Amazon's own official records date all four products after 1997. Its timeline and a 1999 press release put Amazon Auctions in March 1999 and zShops in September 1999, the Marketplace predecessors the criteria name (E1, E2, E10). A dated 2005 press release announced Amazon Prime as the company's first membership program (E8), and Amazon's 2019 Alexa retrospective dates the Echo/Alexa launch to November 6, 2014 (E9). Amazon's investor-relations timeline lists a 2003 Amazon Web Services launch (E4).
Cite this claim
Jeff Bezos, “In 1997 Amazon had not yet invented Prime, Marketplace, Alexa or AWS.” (said 15 April 2021). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_d279d7e1eb18, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_d279d7e1eb18
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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