Mike Hanlon brought his girlfriend to the warehouse and Bezos made her sign an NDA.

Date worked for Amazon: 1995 — 2001

Most recent Amazon title: Operations/Business development/Software development

What he's doing now: Hanlon cofounded a company called Abett that uses data to help you make stressful decisions. The company's first product identifies outfits from the clothes in users' closets. He and his wife, Molly, now run The Hanlon Foundation.

Hanlon was Amazon's seventh employee. According to his LinkedIn, Hanlon managed real estate operations and administrated UNIX and telecom systems from 1995 to 1997. From 1998 to 2001, he worked as a software engineer, developing finance and customer service applications at Amazon.

He shared this fun anecdote via email:

During Christmas 1995, the site really took off. Everyone was working long hours, and my girlfriend (now wife) Molly would come hang out in the warehouse in the evenings to help us pack up shipments. That was really the only chance that Molly and I had to see each other, and her help enabled us to get home earlier than we would have otherwise.

When Jeff Bezos realized that Molly was helping us in the warehouse, he came down and had her sign a non-disclosure agreement.