The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Author(s): Stone, Brad (Author)
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 31/07/2014,
Pagination: 464 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780552167833,
Description:

**Winner of the Financial

Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award** 'Brad Stone's definitive book

on Amazon and Bezos' The Guardian'A masterclass in deeply

researched investigative financial journalism . . . riveting' The TimesThe definitive story of the

largest and most influential company in the world and the man whose drive and

determination changed business forever.

Though Amazon.com started off

delivering books through the mail, its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, was

never content with being just a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become 'the

everything store', offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at

disruptively low prices. To achieve that end, he developed a corporate

culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until

now...

Jeff Bezos stands out for his

relentless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures

like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way

that Henry Ford revolutionised manufacturing.

Amazon placed one of the first

and largest bets on the Internet. Nothing would ever be the same again.