The Everything Store
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Little, Brown and Company · Print & ebook · August 12, 2014
The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.
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- Who it’s for
- A close-up account of Amazon’s rise, shaped by Jeff Bezos’s ambition and the company’s guarded culture.
- Genres
- Business Lives, E-Commerce, Corporate Histories
- Published
- Little, Brown and Company, August 12, 2014
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The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices.
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To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now. 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. Compared to tech's other elite innovators -- Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg -- Bezos is a private man. 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. 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.
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A close-up account of Amazon’s rise, shaped by Jeff Bezos’s ambition and the company’s guarded culture.
Come here for
- The tension between restless expansion and corporate secrecy
- A close-up business biography of Amazon
Expect
- Amazon’s shift from bookseller toward an everything store
- Bezos’s bets on Kindle, cloud computing, and new markets
Where it sits
| Business Lives | 77% |
|---|---|
| Corporate Histories | 51% |
| E-Commerce | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Starting a Business
- Corporate Histories
- E-Commerce
- Authors
- Brad Stone
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- August 12, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Starting a Business