Brad Stone is senior executive editor of global technology at Bloomberg News. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, which has been translated into over thirty-five languages, and The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley. He has covered Silicon Valley for more than twenty years and lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
'Fascinating and deeply researched... Stone is at his best
describing Bezos’s demanding style of management... Masterful.'
*Washington Post*
'Stone’s new volume is on its surface a business book that seeks to
explain the rise of America’s most important private
enterprise... Amazon Unbound is particularly valuable in
explaining how the company makes money, and the day-to-day
decisions that end up having a big effect on consumers... a
dense, at times juicy tour of the company Bezos built.'
*New York Times*
'Innumerable gems...by one of the company's most astute
observers.'
*Economist*
'An excellent new book...Bezos emerges as the ur-billionaire of our
time, the deft wielder of a fortune so vast that he and his company
are becoming "perilously close to invincible".'
*New York Times*
'Brad Stone is now the Edward Gibbon of Amazon - a reliable
and engaging chronicler of one of the great forces of our age. 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, author of The Soul of America*
'There are really only a handful of writers who can craft a
page-turning narrative about the most transformative business
ideas. Brad Stone is one. His topic of choice - Amazon and its
founder Jeff Bezos - is equal to his journalistic skill. In
this book, he gives us his second must-read account of how the
world's most important company and technology titan captured
not only global retail, but Washington, Hollywood, outer space and
your brain.'
*Rana Foroohar, author of Makers and Takers and Don't Be Evil*
'In this vivid, anecdote-filled page-turner of a book, Stone goes
deep inside a company with colossal power, one we rely on for
low-cost, wonderful service, and one that also kills many
businesses and jobs. With rare access to Amazon executives, readers
are taken inside Amazon meetings, see up close Jeff Bezos's
brilliance but also his belligerence, understand the trade-off
between impressive efficiency versus the perils of market
dominance, and get an up-to-the-moment appreciation of why
government is now awake to the monopoly dangers posed by digital
giants like Amazon.'
*Ken Auletta, author of Googled*
'Amazon's reach is so extensive that it can seem easier to list the
few areas of commerce that it doesn't touch than the many it does.
Stone even-handedly describes the history, expansion and major
personalities of the company.'
*The Week*
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