Description: Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone A stunning new account of Amazon and Jeff Bezos from Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description From the bestselling author of The Everything Store, an unvarnished picture of Amazons unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. With the publication of The Everything Store in 2013, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone revealed how the unlikely Seattle start-up Amazon became an unexpected king of ecommerce. Since then, its founder has led Amazon to explosive growth in both size and wealth. In less than ten years, Amazon has quintupled the size of its workforce and increased its valuation to well over a trillion dollars. Whereas Amazon used to sell only books, there is now little they dont sell, becoming the worlds largest online retailer and pushing into other markets at warp speed. Between Amazons forty subsidiaries - like Whole Foods Market, Amazon Studios in Hollywood, websites like Goodreads and IMDb, and Amazon Web Services cloud software unit, plus Bezoss purchase of the Washington Post - its almost impossible to go a day without encountering their goods. Amazon provides us opportunities to shop, entertain, inform, communicate, store and, one day, maybe even travel to the moon. We live in a world run, supplied and controlled by Amazon. In Amazon Unbound, Stone offers the must-read follow-up to his bestseller The Everything Store, detailing the seismic changes that have taken place at Amazon over the past decade as it became one of the most powerful and feared companies in the global economy, led by one of the most powerful and feared leaders in business. He shows the acquisitions and innovations that have propelled Amazons unprecedented growth, and the turn in public sentiment that criticises Amazons monopolistic practices. As he charts the companys meteoric rise, Stone probes the evolution of Jeff Bezos - who started as a geeky entrepreneur but who transformed to become a fit, famed, disciplined billionaire, a man who runs Amazon with an iron fist but finds his personal life splashed over the tabloids.Definitive, timely and revelatory, Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldnt imagine modern life without. Author Biography 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. Review Fascinating and deeply researched... Stone is at his best describing Bezoss demanding style of management... Masterful. -- Marc Levinson * Washington Post *Stones new volume is on its surface a business book that seeks to explain the rise of Americas 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. -- Ben Smith * New York Times *Innumerable gems...by one of the companys 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". -- Farhad Manjoo * 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 Amazons - which, given the retailers ubiquity, makes him a biographer of the way all of us live now. -- Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of AmericaThere 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 worlds 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 Dont Be EvilIn 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 Bezoss 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 GoogledAmazons reach is so extensive that it can seem easier to list the few areas of commerce that it doesnt touch than the many it does. Stone even-handedly describes the history, expansion and major personalities of the company. -- Curtis Sittenfeld, my favourite non-fiction books * The Week * Review Quote Fascinating and deeply researched ... Stone is at his best describing Bezoss demanding style of management... Masterful . Details ISBN1398500976 Author Brad Stone Format Paperback Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1398500976 ISBN-13 9781398500976 DEWEY 381.142 UK Release Date 2021-05-11 Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-05-11 Illustrations 8pp colour plates Pages 496 AU Release Date 2021-05-18 Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd Edition Description Export/Airside Publication Date 2021-05-11 Alternative 9781398500990 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:132006380;
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ISBN-13: 9781398500976
Book Title: Amazon Unbound
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Publication Year: 2021
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Number of Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Amazon Unbound
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Author: Brad Stone
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