Amazon Unbound von Brad Stone

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 512 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Verlag: Simon&Schuster UK
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781398500990

'Fascinating and deeply researched... Stone is at his best describing Bezos's demanding style of management...Masterful.'Marc Levinson Washington PostA stunning new account of Amazon and Jeff Bezos from Brad Stone, author ofThe Everything StoreFrom the bestselling author ofThe Everything Store, an unvarnished picture of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time.<br><br>With the publication ofThe Everything Storein 2013,Bloombergjournalist Brad Stone revealed how the unlikely Seattle start-up Amazon became an unexpectedking 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 don't sell, becoming theworld's largest online retailerand pushing into other markets at warp speed. Between Amazon's forty subsidiaries - like Whole Foods Market, Amazon Studios in Hollywood, websites likeGoodreadsand IMDb, and Amazon Web Services cloud software unit, plus Bezos's purchase of theWashington Post -it's 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.<br><br>InAmazon Unbound, Stone offers the must-read follow-up to his bestsellerThe Everything Store, detailing theseismic changesthat 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 Amazon's unprecedented growth, and the turn in public sentiment that criticises Amazon's monopolistic practices. As he charts the company's meteoric rise, Stone probes theevolution 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.<br><br>Definitive, timely and revelatory, Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn't imagine modern life without.1Brad Stone is senior executive editor of global technology at Bloomberg News and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, 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.

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