Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone
Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone
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Amazon Unbound
Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

Author: Brad Stone

Narrator: Pete Larkin

Unabridged: 16 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/11/2021


Synopsis

This New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store.

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 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 an “excellent” (The New York Times), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became 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 “engaging” (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America), Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.

About Brad Stone

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sudarshan on May 12, 2021

Riveting. Enthralling. Difficult to put down. I promised myself that I won’t finish this book within a day and I embarrassingly broke that promise by a couple of hours. I am a huge admirer of Jeff Bezos. Amazon has been a pioneer in an array of fields, AI, retail, e-commerce, Cloud Computing, a list......more

Goodreads review by Gordon on May 30, 2021

Douche chills. Bezos is a dork. This shitty book pretends to not be directly sanctioned by the beez, but his dorky smell is all over it. The author is right up his ass. The guy is the richest feller on earth. Congratulations. I've read a few biographies of these ultra-rich ppl - they suck, they're bor......more

Goodreads review by Gary on May 19, 2021

This book completely describes the people and the initiatives that were underway or started during my years at Amazon as a VP, and correctly. This is not surprising; Stone's previous book, "The Everything Store" is what influenced me to take the offer Amazon made to me. He is a great writer. This boo......more

Goodreads review by Steven on July 23, 2021

Remember when Amazon first came online in 1995, they would discount books by 33-40%. This pricing lasted for a good 10-15 years then the discounts were reduced under the theory that once they conditioned you as a customer, they could slowly increase their profit margins. After a year of Covid-19 res......more

Goodreads review by TheBookWarren on December 13, 2021

4.25 Stars (Rnd Down⬇️) — Unsure of what exactly this was, I knew it a book I’d maintain interest in. Jeff Bezos is nothing if not an utterly intriguing, fascinating character of modern history. But was it a memoir? A biography? An expose? The title —I guess—does give away the overall thematic angle......more