The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and praised by both The Guardian and The Times, this is the authoritative account of how one man's obsessive ambition quietly reshaped the way the world buys, reads, and stores its data. Amazon began as a mail-order bookseller. Modest enough. But Jeff Bezos had far grander ideas from the very start, envisioning a store that could sell virtually anything, at prices low enough to unsettle entire industries, wrapped in a convenience that customers would find hard to resist. What followed was the construction of a corporate culture built on relentless drive and closely guarded secrecy, a culture that Brad Stone, through rigorous investigative reporting, finally pulls apart and examines in full. Bezos himself emerges as a fascinating, at times unsettling, figure. His willingness to push Amazon into uncharted territory, from the Kindle to cloud computing, mirrors the kind of industrial boldness that Henry Ford brought to manufacturing a century earlier. These weren't safe bets. They were calculated gambles that paid off spectacularly. Amazon placed its chips on the internet earlier and more heavily than almost anyone else, and the world it helped shape looks nothing like the one that came before. Stone's account is thoroughly reported, sharply written, and genuinely hard to put down.
- Author: Brad Stone
- Publisher: Corgi
- Genre: Industry-Specific Business
- ISBN: 978-0552167833
- Pages: 464 pages