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Figure 1 shows that the average customer now spends $313 per year at Amazon.com on 3P and Amazon direct merchandise combined. Figure 1: Customer Annual Retail Spend on Amazon per Active Account. Figure 2 shows the growth rates of both customer spending and total active customer accounts for Amazon since CY09 Q4.
Back when the company had its IPO in 1997, Amazon was pretty much just an online bookstore. The company sold its shares for just $18 to raise $54 million at a valuation of $438 million. Today, it takes Amazon about two days to raise that much cash (based on its 2016 free cash flow). If you had been able to buy $2,000 of Amazon's IPO and held on to it for the past 20 years, you'd be sitting on about $1,136,000 in Amazon stock today. That's a return of 56,821%, or an average of around 37% annually.