BETA
Chapter 1
The grunge-to-gigabyte gear shift
Chapter 2
The urban campus experiment
Chapter 3
The cost of a boom
Chapter 4
Taxes, tensions, and new frontiers
YOUR GOAL
Master of How Amazon rewrote the Seattle story
Ch 2 · The urban campus experiment
sonia Build a booming tech hub to discover how rapid expansion triggers a housing crisis.
sonia As Amazon hired tens of thousands of corporate workers earning over $150,000, their disposable income fueled Seattle's upscale
sonia Giant glass spheres filled with green plants sit beneath towering Seattle construction cranes.
Fun Fact
Banana stand bounty: Amazon hands out free bananas to anyone passing by its Seattle campus, giving away millions yearly.
Glossary
urban campus (noun)
A corporate or academic headquarters integrated into a city center rather than isolated in a suburban office park. In 2007, Amazon launched this model by establishing its sprawling headquarters in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood.
A corporate or academic headquarters integrated into a city center rather than isolated in a suburban office park. In 2007, Amazon launched this model by establishing its sprawling headquarters in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood.
Quiz
What was the average salary level of the tens of thousands of corporate workers Amazon hired in Seattle?
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How did the influx of high-earning tech employees affect Seattle's local business landscape?
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Approximately how many plants from around the world are housed inside the Amazon Spheres?
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What is a unique pet-friendly policy that Amazon is famous for at its Seattle headquarters?
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How does Amazon's office layout in Seattle differ from typical Silicon Valley tech campuses?
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What was a major consequence of Amazon not building large private cafeterias for its employees?