The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Ratings64
Average rating3.9
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Ratings64
Average rating3.9
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 we shop and read. - Publisher.
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Jeff Bezos comes across as very smart and ruthlessly driven. The author must have done a lot of work to get this story. Recommended if you want to see the inside of the dot com business.
An interesting story, despite the author being a really terrible writer. He repeats himself countless times and appears to just completely give up the last 1/3 of the book.
It gave me a rather accurate account of how Amazon grew and how it works. The most surprising thing was their frugality.
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