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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone

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    Listed among his recent reads in Konstantin Panfilov’s December 14, 2018 interview. The list gives the Russian title and author; it does not identify his Kindle edition or make this a separate recommendation.
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Summary

Stone traces Amazon’s rise from an online bookseller into a company with a much wider range of products and services. His reporting examines Bezos’s ambitions and the demanding culture inside Amazon, including its moves into Kindle devices and cloud computing. Interviews with current and former employees and members of Bezos’s family contribute to the account.

  • SourceThe Everything Store — licensed Little, Brown original edition · 2013 publisher description and bibliographic information; ISBN 9780316219266; employee and family reporting
  • SourceThe Everything Store — Hachette Book Group · Description; Amazon’s bookselling origins, expansion, employee/family access, Kindle and cloud computing

Why read it Our view

Useful for examining the demands of building a company across new markets. Stone’s account lets you compare ambition, customer value and the experience of people doing the work. Assess those trade-offs together. A practice that helped Amazon expand still needs evidence that it fits your team, resources and market.

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  • Jeff BezosBiography subject
    Bezos and the company he founded are the subjects of Stone’s reported history. The publisher describes access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos’s family; this does not establish that Bezos was interviewed for the book.
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