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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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"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: Is it worth it, for example, to sell pallets of bottled water, with their low cost and expensive shipping?"
"Stone definitely leans to narrative over analysis."
"[Bezos] seems a rather more distant, one-dimensional figure in this book than he was in The Everything Store."
"There are good accounts of whether Amazon might win big government contracts, none of whether it should ..."
"Stone will get fantastic source material, provided he does not criticise the firm too much."
"Stone is at his best describing Bezos's demanding style of management ..."
"He falls victim to the temperamental inclination, once remarked on by Adam Smith, for us humans to be 'admirers and worshippers, of wealth and greatness' ..."
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