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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Name: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Rating: 5 (14 reviews)
Author: Brad Stone
ISBN: 9780316219280

Brad Stone · 2013 · 416 pages

The definitive story of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com -- "It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story" (New Republic). Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Forbes, New Republic, The Economist, Bloomberg, and Gizmodo. Amazon.com's 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, and his book is the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. The Everything Store is the book that the business world can't stop talking about, 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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Andrej Karpathy
“This is the story of Amazon.com and how it became a ~$500B company. The book is fun and engaging to read. The chapters focus on painting a picture of Jeff Bezos and his philosophy, and the various adversities that the company has faced over its 20 years of existence. I am generally not a huge fan of worship-fiction (which is very common when it comes to books about "visionary founders"), but luckily this book is only about 50% that. The other 50% is a genuinely fun read about Amazon's beginnings, struggles, and its now-sprawling empire from a high-level business perspective. My favorite parts included: 1) the clear-headed analysis that went into the original spark behind Amazon, 2) the repeating pattern of the "flywheel" positive feedback loops that was the energy source of Amazon's growth, 3) the amusing inability of the incumbents to realize what was happening and how to address it, and finally 4) the anecdotes related to all of the above. good/fun read. Would recommend to anyone interested in the history of internet and the dot com bubble and general high-level business strategy grounded in the examples from Amazon's history.”
Danielle Morrill
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Doug McMillon
“I read and give this book because you need to understand what you’re up against.”↗
Tracy DiNunzio
“It's a great book and especially for people starting out.”↗
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