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.

A fascinating Read.

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

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.

Great book and content. Awful narration

Content is superb, no doubt.

Narration is awful. Super thick voice with words not clearly or sharply enunciated.
Hard to hear while driving unless you are fully paying attention to the narration in which case you are not paying attention to the road.

An Important Story Told Well

Amazon is shaping our world and Bezos is the key to understanding it. His philosophy and practice may not please, but they work. This book, combined with the previous one on the subject by the same author, paint a clear picture of the man behind the revolution that for better or worse is a part of our everyday reality.