Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire 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 nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post . We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder. In Amazon Unbound , Brad Stone presents an “excellent” ( The New York Times ), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes t...