Amazon Unbound

Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

By: Brad Stone, Brad Stone - introduction

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

This New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store.

Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.

In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents an “excellent” (The New York Times), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself—who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions, who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids.

Definitive, timely, and “engaging” (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America), Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.

Great book!

I enjoyed the behind the scenes views of what made Bezos and Amazon tick. I learned a lot and enjoyed how the book unfolded.

Another great story by Brad Stone

I Absolutely loved this book. It's well written and well researched. A great thriller.

A fascinating Read.

learned much more than I thought that I might about Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Definitely a great read.

not about Amazon but about Bezos

the title lies and that’s the only reason for the 2 stars about the story. I wanted to know a lot about Amazon, and I got entire chapter about blue origin, Washington post, a divorce and a tabloid scandal. They had unfluence on amazon direction so should maybe be mentionned in passing. but there is almost nothing about actually amazon ! sSince the author explained Bezos had less time to give to amazon, this is not excusable. if you re title it as a story about Bezos and not about Amazon, it should be 5 stars

the audio quality is great however

Another Great Amazon / Bezos Read

I read Brad Stone’s first Amazon book years ago and have been waiting for the follow up for quite a while. He did not disappoint - another entertaining, insightful, fast moving story just like his first. The other reason I enjoy these stories about Amazon is because I was following Amazon’s early beginnings since 1997. I thought they were going to be an unbelievable company with tremendous potential and even purchased a few shares of it stock in 1999, alas, too few. So my interest in Amazon has been ongoing for 22 years and with Brad’s excellent writing and storytelling I really enjoyed the peek behind the curtain.