Brad Stone.
BRAD STONE
AMAZON UNBOUND: JEFF BEZOS AND THE INVENTION OF A GLOBAL EMPIRE (2021)
Winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
Jeff Bezos was born in 1964; his father was 19, and his mother was a 17 year old high school student. His parents divorced when he was 17 months old, and his mother re-married a Cuban immigrant Mike Bezos, who adopted Jeff.
Bezos is the founder of Amazon - an American world leader in e-commerce and cloud computing. From 2017 to 2021 he was judged by Forbes as the richest person in the world. His wealth in November 2024 was estimated at $217 billion.
This book is a sequel to Brad Stone’s prize winning biography of Bezos - The Everything Store - published ten years previously. It describes the dramatic, and sometimes problematic, development of Amazon into a massive global company.
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Brad Stone is a journalist and author who works for Bloomberg News at their San Francisco bureau. He previously worked as a technology journalist at Newsweek and the New York Times. He was educated at Columbia University, New York City. His First vlume of biography of Jeff Bezos - The Everything Store - has been translated into 35 languages.
