The everything store : Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon
Stone, Brad
The everything store : Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon / Brad Stone. - New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. - 463 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (chiefly colored) ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue — Part 1 : Faith. The house of quants — The book of Bezos — Fever dreams — Milliravi — Part 2 : Literary influences. Rocket boy — Chaos theory — A technology company, not a retailer — Fiona — Part 3 : Missionary or mercenary? Liftoff! — Expedient convictions — The kingdom of the question mark — Appendix : Jeff's reading list.
This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech's other elite innovators -- Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg -- Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing. The Everything Store will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.
9780552167833
Bezos, Jeffrey
Amazon.com (Firm)--History
Electronic commerce--United States
Businessmen--Biography--United States
Booksellers and bookselling--Biography--United States
Internet bookstores
Bibliography B3 DM - eCommerce Fundamentals
HF5548.323.W43
The everything store : Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon / Brad Stone. - New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. - 463 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (chiefly colored) ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue — Part 1 : Faith. The house of quants — The book of Bezos — Fever dreams — Milliravi — Part 2 : Literary influences. Rocket boy — Chaos theory — A technology company, not a retailer — Fiona — Part 3 : Missionary or mercenary? Liftoff! — Expedient convictions — The kingdom of the question mark — Appendix : Jeff's reading list.
This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech's other elite innovators -- Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg -- Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing. The Everything Store will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.
9780552167833
Bezos, Jeffrey
Amazon.com (Firm)--History
Electronic commerce--United States
Businessmen--Biography--United States
Booksellers and bookselling--Biography--United States
Internet bookstores
Bibliography B3 DM - eCommerce Fundamentals
HF5548.323.W43
