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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
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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.
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"The chapters could be arranged in a different order and you wouldn't really notice because each is about something very different ..."
"But there is plenty of fuel here for those seeking to emulate Amazon's success, even on a small scale ..."
"But it benefits from the author's distance, and makes for a dense, at times juicy tour of the company Bezos built."
"The book will no doubt be enthralling to budding entrepreneurs who view men such as Bezos as masters of the universe."
"Stone is at his best describing Bezos's demanding style of management ..."
"Sadly, he fluffs it by not giving us an answer ..."
"The potential and inspiration about Bezos's dream to have an enduring human presence of up to a trillion people in space is enthralling, yet you'll not walk away from reading this book knowing much about it."
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