Which came first, Amazon or Instagram?
Which came first, Amazon or Instagram?
Amazon
1994 — 16 years before Instagram
Amazon came first, by 16 years. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
Side by side
| Amazon | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1994 | 2010 |
| Date | 1994-07-05 | 2010-10-06 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state. | The app launched on iOS. |
Amazon
Amazon was incorporated on 5 July 1994, originally as Cadabra, and the website opened in July 1995 selling only books. The 1994 incorporation date is used here because it is the company's own founding date; if you mean the shop, 1995 is the answer. Either way it predates Google by three or four years and eBay by about a year.
Instagram launched in October 2010 as an iPhone-only app and took 25,000 users on its first day. Facebook bought it in April 2012 for about $1 billion when it had thirteen employees and no revenue. It is four years younger than Twitter and six years older than TikTok.
Common questions
- Which came first, Amazon or Instagram?
- Amazon, by 16 years — 1994 against 2010.
- When did Amazon start?
- 1994. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
- When did Instagram start?
- 2010. The app launched on iOS.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)