Jeff Bezos Still Uses One of His First-Ever Desks: Photo

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 picture that exhibits him on the identical desk years in the past.

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

“After 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 for the reason that starting,” Sanchez penned. “That is the place numerous hours of laborious work meet the center of Day one. This is to the limitless pursuit of what is potential.”

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Bezos famously based Amazon as an internet guide retailer from his storage in 1994. When he began hiring workers for the corporate, he went across the road to Residence Depot and made “door desks” for workers to make use of — a.okay.a. desks with surfaces that had been simply constructed door panels.

Amazon says 1000’s of workers 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 manner we may assist a desk,” Amazon’s fifth-ever worker, Nico Lovejoy, mentioned in an organization weblog put up 5 years in the past. “Lots of the issues that we do are scrappy by nature. As long as the scrappy resolution works.”

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

Nevertheless, Lovejoy maintained that although the thought was sensible, Bezos may need to keep on with enterprise.

“You’d by no means need to rent Jeff Bezos as a carpenter,” Lovejoy wrote. “He is significantly 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.