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The Everything Store
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The Everything Store

Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Little, Brown US, 2013 mais...


Editorial Rating

8

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  • Eye Opening
  • Background

Recommendation

Technology journalist Brad Stone details the rise of Amazon, from its earliest days in founder Jeff Bezos’s garage to its success as a global, game-changing online retailer, technology service provider and platform. Stone asserts that he had Bezos’s cooperation, though this corporate biography is unauthorized. Stone conducted 300 interviews with current and former Amazon employees, including those involved from the beginning. Though Bezos’s wife gives it only one-star with her review, getAbstract recommends Stone’s opus as the most comprehensive and readable account of “The Everything Store” and its visionary leader.

Take-Aways

  • In 1994, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos moved to Seattle to start an online bookstore.
  • Aided by computer engineers Stan Kaphan and Paul Davis, Amazon went live in 1995.
  • A 1997 IPO raised $54 million, put Amazon in the public eye and boosted sales.

About the Author

Brad Stone is a former New York Times and Newsweek technology journalist, now writing for Bloomberg Businessweek. He also wrote Gearheads: the Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sport.


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    s. p. 3 years ago
    If you're not going to permit the summary read, why are you sending an e-mail?
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    O. G. 7 years ago
    Amazing summary that describes the vision from a great entrepreneur and master of innovation.

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