The Everything Store

By Brad Stone

Journalist Brad Stone's 2013 book tells the story of Amazon and its founder, Jeff Bezos, from an online bookseller to a company selling almost everything. Stone traces Bezos's childhood and his years at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw, Amazon's near collapse in the dot-com bust and its revival through Amazon Prime, the Kindle and Amazon Web Services. Drawing on interviews with Amazon insiders and members of Bezos's family, he describes a corporate culture of intense ambition and secrecy.

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Shane Parrish: “An inside look at how Amazon came to be the company we know it as today. One important take away is how business, facing new competition, often struggle to cannibalize existing profit areas.”