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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

By: Brad Stone
Narrated by: Pete Larkin
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**Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award**


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 achieve that end, 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 is 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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Critic Reviews

A masterclass in deeply researched investigative financial journalism ... riveting (Tim Waterstone)
Stone has done a remarkable job in a way that Bezos would appreciate – by working very hard. (John Gapper)
Engrossing... Stone's long tenure covering both Bezos and Amazon... gives his retelling a sureness that keeps the story moving swiftly
The definitive biography of the company that changed the way we shop and read... A masterclass in investigative journalism
Scrupulously researched... If only all business books were as readable as this one (Ian King)
I highly recommend this book. Amazon is one of the most important companies in the 21st-century economy, and anyone whose business has been or will be touched by Amazon should be sure to read it. (Tim O'Reilly)
Jeff Bezos is one of the most visionary, focused, and tenacious innovators of our era, and like Steve Jobs he transforms and invents industries. Brad Stone captures his passion and brilliance in this well-reported and compelling narrative. (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs: the Exclusive Biography)
The meticulously reported book has plenty of gems for anyone who cares about Amazon, Jeff Bezos, entrepreneurship, leadership just the lunacy it took to build a company in less than two decades that now employs almost 90,000 people and sold $61 billion worth of, well, almost everything last year.
The Everything Store is a revelatory read for everyone - those selling and those sold to - who wants to understand the dynamics of the new digital economy. If you've ever one-clicked a purchase, you must read this book. (Steven Levy, author of Hackers and In the Plex)
Stone's tale of the birth, near-death, and impressive revival of an iconic American company is well worth your time. (Matthew Yglesias)
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Amazing story of an amazing - and scary! - man, his dream, unbelievable mind and character.

Amazing story!

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Really enjoyed this book. It was it very well written and researched and a such a fantastic story.

Great book, fantastic story

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Entertaining. Nice story. Interesting life and commitment to developing Amazon.
Demonstrates what is possible with focus.
Could be more detailed but still worth a listen.

Entertaining

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This could have been better with a more rigorous edit. Some of the details didn't seem that relevant to the overall story.

Just too long

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The story was a little distant from Bezos and what kind of person he was in his private life. More about the achievements of Amazon and subsidiary companies. It also overlooked going into depth about Blue Origin, which would have been cool.

Dense, but it was alright

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