The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

In February 1994, a Texas publisher named John Quarterman printed a chart in a monthly newsletter called Matrix News. It showed that the number of bytes transmitted over the World Wide Web had grown by a factor of 2,057 between January 1993 and January 1994. Packets sent over the Web had jumped by a factor of 2,560 in the same twelve months. A twenty-nine-year-old running a quantitative fund's…