Ciro Santilli
OurBigBook.comFirst Amazon hire, wrote and led the team that wrote v1.
He looks like an older and more experienced dude compared to Bezos at the time.
Bibliography:
. www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1/2/ also mentions that unlike California, there's no sales tax in the state of Washington, which is important for selling books.
. www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1/2/ also mentions that unlike California, there's no sales tax in the state of Washington, which is important for selling books.
- a few mentions at: Video 6. "Jeff Bezos presentation at MIT (2002)"
Amazon.com Continues to Grow by NBC 15 (2014)
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Shel Kaphan
. Source. TODO year. Presumably more or less close to publishing date of source at 2020.