About pages/brands stories research for at least 2 similar (to your project) E-Commerce website (Blog#16)

 About Brands Stories

The two brands that I am going to discuss today are:
  1. AliExpress
  2. Amazon

AliExpress:


We all know about aliexpress as a prominent E-commerce business website, but we not everyone else knows about the rich history of aliexpress, how it came into being, who was the pioneer, how it changed the E-commerce business as of today. We will tap into all of this here.

Behind aliexpress is alibaba, and behind alibaba is Jack Ma

Jack Ma was born in Hangzhou, China, in 1964. Jack went to USA as an interpreter for Chinese company while he was a full time teacher in a university, earning a little extra on the side.

In 1999, Ma quit his job and went back to Hangzhou to create alibaba with 17 of his friends. Alibaba wasn't only one website, its business group run by Ma offering a variety of services, and among those services was AliExpress, an E-commerce business website that revolutionized the business-to-consumer vertical.


Amazon:


Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5,1994 in his garage. The website initially sold only books online, founder Jeff Bezos had a vision for the company's explosive growth and e-commerce domination. He knew from the very beginning that he wanted amazon to be an "Everything Store"

References:

[1] Blog, A. 2022, September 04. A Brief History of Jack Ma, Alibaba and AliExpress [Online]. Available: https://alixblog.com/en/history-aliexpress-alibaba/.

[2] Hartmans, A. 2021, July 2. Jeff Bezos originally wanted to name Amazon 'Cadabra,' and 14 other little-known facts about the early days of the e-commerce giant [Online]. Available: https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-amazon-history-facts-2017-4#amazon-wasnt-the-companys-original-name-1.

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