The Everything Store
This book is 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. 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
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Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone draws on more than three hundred interviews to tell the story of Jeff Bezos and the long, often punishing rise of Amazon from a 1994 Bellevue garage into the everything store.
Yes. The Everything Store is Brad Stone's nonfiction history of Amazon and Jeff Bezos, drawing on extensive interviews with current and former Amazon executives. Stone has written follow-up books on Amazon since.
Yes. Brad Stone wrote Amazon Unbound (2021) as a follow-up. The two books form a long-running narrative of the company's growth, including the AWS-and-Alexa eras and the late-2010s expansion.
The Everything Store was written by Brad Stone, published in 2013 by Back Bay Books.
The Everything Store is 372 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Everything Store takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
The Everything Store is a standalone novel by Brad Stone, not part of a series.
The Everything Store is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.