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The Everything Store

Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

How Bezos turned a bookstore into an everything machine.

by Brad Stone

Brad Stone chronicles Amazon's rise from a 1990s online bookstore through the dot-com crash to the inventions of Prime, Kindle, and AWS. Drawing on interviews with insiders, he profiles Jeff Bezos's relentless, customer-obsessed, and demanding leadership. The book is a detailed business history of how Amazon became one of the most powerful companies in the world.

Amazon is a master class in long-term thinking, customer obsession, and reinvesting for scale, all themes founders wrestle with. Stone shows the strategic decisions and operating culture that turned a single idea into a sprawling platform.

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