Description
Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post. 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 transformed into a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions, who ruled Amazon with an iron fist even as his personal life was splashed over the tabloids.
Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.
Revealing the most important business story of our time. Definitive and timely.
Endorsements
A Washington Post Notable Book.
This New York Times bestseller.
“Masterful.” — The Washington Post
“Juicy tour of the company Jeff Bezos built.” — The New York Times Book Review
“Excellent.” — The New York Times
“Engaging.” — Jon Meacham