Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a International Empire

“A masterful guide.” —Marc Levinson, The Washington Submit


“A juicy tour of the corporate Bezos constructed.”—The New York Occasions E book Assessment

From the bestselling writer of The Every little thing Retailer, an unvarnished image of Amazon’s unprecedented development and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing a very powerful enterprise story of our time.

Nearly ten years in the past,
Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller
The Every little thing Retailer. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel merchandise like Alexa and disrupting numerous industries, whereas its workforce has quintupled in dimension and its valuation has soared to nicely over a trillion {dollars}. Jeff Bezos’s empire, as soon as housed in a storage, now spans the globe. Between providers like Complete Meals, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s possession of
The Washington Submit, it’s unimaginable to go a day with out encountering its influence. We reside in a world run, provided, and managed by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.

In
Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents a deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart grew to become some of the highly effective and feared entities within the international economic system. Stone additionally probes the evolution of Bezos himself—who began as a geeky technologist completely dedicated to constructing Amazon, however who reworked to develop into a match, disciplined billionaire with international ambitions; who dominated Amazon with an iron fist, at the same time as he discovered his private life splashed over the tabloids.

Definitive, well timed, and revelatory, Stone has supplied an unvarnished portrait of a person and firm that we couldn’t think about fashionable life with out.