Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos And The Invention Of A Global Empire
by Brad Stone
2021-05-26 23:13:38
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos And The Invention Of A Global Empire
by Brad Stone
2021-05-26 23:13:38
From the bestselling author of The Everything Store , an unvarnished picture of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. "If a company and a culture can have a bio...
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From the bestselling author of The Everything Store , an unvarnished picture of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. "If a company and a culture can have a biographer, Stone is Amazon's--which, given the retailer's ubiquity, makes him a biographer of the way all of us live now." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer-Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store . Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to well over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos's empire, once housed in a garage, now spans the globe. Between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon's cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos's ownership of The Washington Post , it's impossible to go a day without encountering its impact. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder. In Amazon Unbound , Brad Stone presents a deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became one of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself--who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions; who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids. Definitive, timely, and revelatory, Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn't imagine modern life without.
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