A Book Noted by the Washington Post

The bestselling author of The Everything Store shares the most significant business tale of our time in this New York Times bestseller, which has been called "masterful" by The Washington Post and a "juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built" by The New York Times Book Review.

Journalist Brad Stone of Bloomberg chronicled the ascent of Amazon over a decade ago in his best-selling book The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon's growth has been exponential, leading to the creation of cutting-edge technologies like Alexa and the disruption of several sectors. Its workforce has quadrupled, and its valuation has increased to about two trillion dollars. With the presence of Jeff Bezos's Amazon, one seldom has a day goes by without being affected by the company's offerings, which include Whole Foods, Prime Video, AWS, Amazon's cloud computing division, and The Washington Post. Our world is supplied, managed, and governed by Amazon and its iconoclastic founder.

In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone paints a vividly detailed, well-documented, "excellent" (The New York Times) picture of how a retail upstart rose to become one of the most significant and feared companies in the world economy. Stone also delves into Bezos's personal development. He began as a geeky technologist who was completely focused on creating Amazon, but he eventually changed into a well-groomed, self-disciplined billionaire with grand ambitions. He ruled Amazon with an iron fist while his private life made headlines.

We couldn't picture contemporary life without Stone and his firm, as he has painted an honest portrayal of a man and organization that is definitive, current, and "engaging" (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America).