The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00BWQW73E |
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| Number of Pages | : | 205 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brad Stone has covered technology in Silicon Valley for over 14 years, with publications such as Newsweek, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek.
The Everything Store provides extraordinary access to one of the great business stories of this or any other time." -- Michael Levin, The Huffington Post"A tome that paints a fascinating picture of a remarkable tech entrepreneur." -- The Economist"Illuminating." -- Salon"Stone's shoe-leather reporting is what makes the book stand out." -- GeekWire"As fine a profile of a secretive, fast-growing company as you are likely to encounter." -- Michael Moritz, Chairman, Sequoia Capital, LinkedIn. A must-add to any business bookshelf." -- Kirkus"Brad Stone has done a remarkable job in The Everything Store, in a way that Bezos would appreciate." -- The Financial Times"An immersive p
"An immersive play-by-play of the company's ascent. Until now.Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former employees and Bezos family members, and his book is the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at . The Everything Store is the book that the business world can't stop talking about, 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.. He wanted to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the origin story." -- Laura Bennett, New Republic 's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller
I did like this book S. Kaphan I wasn't really planning on reviewing this book, because I was mentioned in it several times and it didn't seem appropriate. But several other people who were also mentioned in the book have already posted reviews, and in fact, MacKenzie Bezos, in her well known 1-star review, suggested that other "characters" might "step out of books" and "speak for themselves".I was at Amazon for the first 5 years of its existence, so I also have firsthand experience of those times at the company, and I have been a fairly close observer since I left. By and large. Interesting, surface-level read about the complexity and mindset behind Amazon Kevin As somebody who has been familiar with Amazon since they began (tech in Seattle is a small world), Amazon has always been in my peripherals so I was already somewhat familiar with Amazon's stigma, especially in this city, as well as what a lot of people have had to say about Amazon. This book only really scratches the surface of the mindset of Jeff and his executive team throughout the course of Amazon's history, but if you can take an objective viewpoint and read between the lines of the book you can get a pretty revealing idea of how Amazon opera. A revealing book--on Amazon and Bezos I was looking for a biography of Jeff Bezos and The Everything Store is about Amazon almost exclusively. The book reveals what a complex entity Amazon is and how tremendously impressive Jeff Bezos is, and that's useful but there may be a little too much detail, and I'd like something more on how Bezos' style has meshed with the presumably independent Washington Post. Also, I 've been wondering about the competition between Bezos and Musk in the area of space ships. Perhaps the book was written before much could be said about either of those two top