Jeff Bezos

It was literally in the first six months.

I can't remember exactly when it was.

An order from Bulgaria.

And I didn't even know they had internet access in 1995 in Bulgaria, but they did.

This person did not pay with a credit card.

They paid with cash, which is a method of payment we discourage.

And they had taken two crisp $100 bills.

and folded them up in a tiny little package.

And they took those $100 bills and put them inside a floppy disk.

They opened the little metal door and slipped them in the floppy disk.

And then they mailed us the floppy disk.

On the floppy disk was a little note, and it said, the money is inside the floppy disk.

And then it went on to say, the customs inspectors steal the money, but they don't read English.

And so we opened up the little door.

Sure enough, there was $200 in there.

They had written their order number on it so we could associate it with, and we shipped them their books, and all was well.

The biggest impact that AI is going to have is it is going to affect every company in the world.

It is going to make their quality go up and their productivity go up.

That's Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaking at Italian Tech Week earlier this month, where he also said... The second thing that happens when people get very excited, as they are today about artificial intelligence, for example, is every experiment gets funded.

Every company gets funded.