Corporate Events

Amazon Initial Public Offering

Citation Formats

General Reference

Business Atlas. "Amazon Initial Public Offering." Accessed August 29, 2026. https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/corporate-events/amazon-ipo-1997.

APA Style

Business Atlas. (n.d.). Amazon Initial Public Offering. Retrieved August 29, 2026, from https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/corporate-events/amazon-ipo-1997

BibTeX

@misc{businessatlas-amazon-initial-public-offering,
  author = {Business Atlas},
  title = {Amazon Initial Public Offering},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/corporate-events/amazon-ipo-1997},
  note = {Accessed August 29, 2026}
}

Amazon.com held its initial public offering on May 15, 1997, selling shares at $18 each on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol AMZN and raising approximately $54 million. The offering came three years after founder Jeff Bezos incorporated the company as an online bookstore, and it provided capital Amazon used to expand from books into a broader online retail catalog through the late 1990s.

Facts

Event Type

Initial public offering 1

Event Year

1997 1

Cross-Tradition Connections