If 1999 was the year of e-commerce—and it was, oh, it was!—then the guy who built Amazon. com must be the year’ s (36) mover. Fearless multibillionaire (亿万富翁) leader of the Web’s biggest store, Bezos (37) a company that adds customers so fast that it doesn’t have time to make money. In the process, he has made life (38) for anyone else trying to sell goods online. Amazon has spent the past year using its (39) customer base—and its one-click ordering system, Amway-like network and here-every-one-knows-your-name customer service—to (40) Microsoft-like into nearly everyone else’s business. Music and video competitors CDNow and N2k had to combine to fight off Amazon’s (41) . A summer move into toys and (42) helps explain why the (43) company has been building a network of 75,000-sq-m warehouses across the country. (44) . Where Bezos doesn’t build, he buys. (45) . Once a Wall Street man who cooled up financial models for D. E. Shaw, Bezos set off for Seattle in 1994, writing the business plan for Amazon.com on the plane. (46) .
