Amazon has grown from an online bookseller to a domineering tech giant since Jeff Bezos founded it in 1994.

Even when Amazon was young, Bezos had an extraordinary vision for his company.

Here are some of the most accurate predictions Bezos made 20 years ago, in 1999.

Twenty years ago, in 1999, Amazon was a five-year-old kindergartner startup navigating the early e-commerce market.

But that didn't stop CEO Jeff Bezos from dreaming big. At the time, Amazon had just started to expand its offerings beyond books. But Bezos was already painting outlandish visions of his customer-first website becoming the one-stop marketplace for everything.

Fast-forward to today, and Bezos is the richest man in the world, worth more than $141 billion.

Here are eight predictions Bezos made in 1999 that are right on the money:

"We want to try and build a place where people can come to find and discover anything that they might want to buy online," Bezos said in an appearance on Charlie Rose's talk show.

Bezos with Amazon's first sign, which was hastily spray-painted for a TV interview.

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Bezos' vision in 1999 has become a reality. A 2018 poll conducted by NPR and Marist found that online shoppers were most likely to start on Amazon -- even before going on a search engine like Google.

"Strip malls are history."

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Bezos predicted that physical storefronts would survive only if they could provide at least one of two core features: entertainment value or immediate convenience.

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Bezos told Wired that entertainment value is why places like movie theaters won't die.

"That experience is what you get when you go to movie theaters, and why you don't always rent movies, right?" he said.

Many malls and retailers have looked at these two paths to stay relevant, with some offering high-tech experiences to get customers into their brick-and-mortar locations.

Meanwhile, Bezos wanted a piece of that immediate convenience for Amazon, spurring it to buy Whole Foods and experiment with other physical retail stores.

Wired described Bezos' vision as being able to "take care of the last mile of delivery yourself at any time."

"I'm a big believer in this notion of sort of appliances, that there'll be lots of little things that are connected to the internet ... There'll be a whole bunch of things sort of connected to the network."

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In 1999, Amazon and Barnes & Noble were seen as direct competitors in the book-selling business. "I bet you a year from now they will not consider us direct competitors," Bezos told Wired. "Clearly they do today, but we're on different paths ... We're trying to invent the future of e-commerce, and they're just defending their turf."

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While Barnes & Noble has largely remained a bookstore, Amazon counts books as just one product in its ever-growing marketplace. Perhaps in the early days of e-readers the two brands were seen as direct competitors, but Amazon's Kindle has greatly outpacedBarnes & Noble's Nook.

"Advertising is also a very valid model on the 'net. They're going to be able to make their ads more meaningful to customers by better targeting your ads, something that's hard to do in broadcast."

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Personalized ads, using data from a person's search and shopping histories, are common today. And as live-TV consumption continues to decline, money is increasingly being put into digital advertising.

As of late 2018, Amazon was on track to become the third-largest digital advertiser in the US, behind Google and Facebook.

"There's nothing more frustrating than having to wait two minutes for your computer to boot up ... By the time I've waited the two minutes, I've forgotten what I was going to do. So that's I think a very important technology. And people are working on it. That one's going to happen sometime."

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Bezos mentioned in several interviews in 1999 his gripe with long waits to start up his computer.

In an interview with Charlie Rose, Bezos said computers would soon be equipped with what he referred to as "instant-on."

Now, with smartphones that give you answers in the palm of your hand and laptops that don't need to be turned off after each use, it seems Bezos nailed that one. Technology has never been so readily accessible.

Wired's 1999 profile outlined the Amazon CEO's vision for 2020: "The vast bulk of store-bought goods -- food staples, paper products, cleaning supplies, and the like -- you will order electronically. "

But not every one of Bezos' predictions has been wholly accurate.

Bezos discussed Amazon's use of customer data in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes."

In the segment, the reporter Bob Simon said this startling line: "Bezos refuses to rule out selling the valuable information to other companies in the future. But he doesn't think his customers are concerned about the issue."