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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Everything Store Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Author:Brad Stone Amazon.com made its mark sending new books quickly in nice, smile-embossed boxes. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the world's store, where everything is available to everyone, usually in 24 hours. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and drive... more » and revolutionized retail the way Ford revolutionized manufacturing.
Brad Stone has been given unprecedented access to Amazon employees, both current and former, to give readers the first fly-on-the-wall narrative account of the world's largest online retailer. In a club of tech business innovators that includes Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, Bezos stands out for his hyper-competitive business strategies, which are leading Amazon to current ventures from hardware like e-readers and tablet PCs, web hosting for some of the world's most valuable companies, book publishing, and even a top secret space program.
THE EVERYTHING STORE will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company and its genius creator.« less