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| Author | Brad Stone |
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| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Published in English | 2013 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 384 |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-21926-6 |
| OCLC | 900162756 |
| Preceded by | Gearheads: the Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports (2003) |
| Followed by | The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World (2017) |
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon is a 2013 bestselling book written by journalistBrad Stone. It documents the rise ofAmazon.com in the 1990s, its near demise during thedot-com bust, and its subsequent revival with the inventions ofAmazon Prime, theKindle andAmazon Web Services.[1][2] It also recounts the childhood and early years of the company's founderJeff Bezos, including his career on Wall Street working for the quantitative hedge fundD.E. Shaw & Co., LLP. As part of his research, Stone tracked down Ted Jorgensen, Bezos's biological father, who was unaware that his son had become one of the most famous businessmen in the world.[3]
The paperback edition, published in 2014, includes a lengthy email to the author from Amazon’s first CFO, the lateJoy Covey.
The book and its findings on Amazon’s internal workings and its relationship with suppliers have been cited in subsequent research and reports from regulators and legislators.
The book was aNew York Times andWall Street Journal bestseller and has been translated into more than 35 languages. It won theFinancial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2013.[4][5] It received its first one-star review on Amazon fromMacKenzie Bezos, then wife of Jeff Bezos, claiming many inaccuracies while pointing out only one, the timing of Jeff Bezos reading the novelRemains of the Day.[6] Stone was allowed access to many current and former Amazon executives, as well as Bezos’s parents and personal friends, but had only limited interaction with Bezos himself.[6]
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