{"id":992967,"date":"2026-02-17T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992967"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:34:08","slug":"as-amazon-loses-450-billion-plus-in-market-value-in-less-than-10-days-heres-what-founder-jeff-bezos-told-shareholders-in-annual-letter-when-amazon-stock-fell-80-in-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/as-amazon-loses-450-billion-plus-in-market-value-in-less-than-10-days-heres-what-founder-jeff-bezos-told-shareholders-in-annual-letter-when-amazon-stock-fell-80-in-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"As Amazon loses $450 billion-plus in market value in less than 10 days, here&#8217;s what founder Jeff Bezos told shareholders in annual letter when Amazon stock fell 80% in 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon recently posted its longest streak of daily losses in almost 20 years after the company\u2019s shares fell 18% over the last 10 days, erasing about $463 billion in market valuation. Shares on the e-commerce giant fell 0.4% on February 13, marking their ninth straight negative session, per a Bloomberg report. This marks Amazon stock\u2019s longest losing streak since a nine-day decline that ended in July 2006. Amidst all this, an old letter by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has appeared on X. Addressed to Amazon\u2019s shareholders, the letter acknowledges Amazon&#8217;s 80% stock drop during the dot-com bubble in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Shared by journalist Jon Erlichman, the letter emphasizes long-term customer obsession over market noise, with Bezos noting the company&#8217;s stronger fundamentals and highest-ever American Customer Satisfaction Index score of 84 for a service firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon recently posted its longest streak of daily losses in almost 20 years after the company\u2019s shares fell 18% over the last 10 days, erasing about $463 billion in market valuation. Shares on the e-commerce giant fell 0.4% on February 13, marking their ninth straight negative session, per a Bloomberg report. This marks Amazon stock\u2019s longest losing streak since a nine-day decline that ended in July 2006. Amidst all this, an old letter by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has appeared on X. Addressed to Amazon\u2019s shareholders, the letter acknowledges Amazon&#8217;s 80% stock drop during the dot-com bubble in 2000. Shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}