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Chances are that most of you reading this have purchased something on Amazon.com at one point or another. What started out as an online bookstore during the famous dotcom era grew to be the second company ever to reach a trillion-dollar market cap, and is now often referred to as "The Everything Store." Amazon was founded in 1995, became publicly traded in 1997, and as of 2018 did $232.89 billion in sales.
Had you been an early investor in Amazon back in 1997, your total return on investment would be approximately 96,446.43%, or an average annual compounded growth rate of 136.47% as of this writing (adjusted for stock splits and dividends). Sounds like a return on investment you could live with!