It was also interesting to hear of Jeff Bezos' personal background and management approach. Hearing of publishers' wrangling the impossible dilemma of price (value) and sales volume. What was one of the most memorable moments of The Everything Store? Also a warning to anyone who may want to work for Amazon but does not share the company ethos! to learn the background to Amazon Prime was a real eye opener. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?įascinating story about disruptive business innovation. The Everything Store is 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. 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.

Until now.īrad 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.Ĭompared to tech's other elite innovators - Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg - Bezos is a private man. To achieve that end, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked.

He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.Ī started off delivering books through the mail.

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