Growth Rate of the Internet [Infographic]
Internet Usage Statistics
Amazon’s story began in the Spring of 1994 when Bezos was struck by the amazing annual growth of Internet usage. Bezos who was working as a senior vice president for the New York Hedge Fund: DE Shaw, the youngest SVP at that time saw a huge opportunity at that time and began to explore the idea of creating a business that would tap into that growth. You can read more on that story here
If you think the internet is slowing down, you need to do some rethink, this infographic below from the folks at Mashable designed by Cisco explains the internet usage statistics, it ain’t slowing down at all.


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