num_pages: 496
description: 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 Bezoss empire once housed in a garage now spans the globe. Between services like Whole Foods Prime Video and Amazons cloud computing unit AWS plus Bezoss ownership of The Washington Post its 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 himselfwho 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.
language: English
title: Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
publisher: Simon & Schuster