

I'm also the author of The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley. The book is a sequel to my earlier work, "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon," which won the Book of the Year Award in 2013 from The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs. I am the senior executive editor for global technology coverage at Bloomberg and the author of "Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire," published in May 2021 by Simon and Schuster.

THE EVERYTHING STORE will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing.

Compared to tech's other elite innovators-Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg-Bezos is a private man. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. started off delivering books through the mail. The definitive story of, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.
