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Amazon Unbound
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
From the best-selling author of The Everything Store, an unvarnished picture of Amazon’s unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time.
With the publication of The Everything Store in 2013, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone revealed how the unlikely Seattle start-up Amazon became an unexpected king of ecommerce. Since then, its founder has led Amazon to explosive growth in both size and wealth. In less than 10 years, Amazon has quintupled the size of its workforce and increased its valuation to well over a trillion dollars. Whereas Amazon used to sell only books, there is now little they don’t sell, becoming the world’s largest online retailer and pushing into other markets at warp speed. Between Amazon’s 40 subsidiaries - like Whole Foods Market, Amazon Studios in Hollywood, websites like Goodreads and IMDb, and Amazon Web Services cloud software unit, plus Bezos’ purchase of the Washington Post - it’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering their goods. Amazon provides us opportunities to shop, entertain, inform, communicate, store and, one day, maybe even travel to the moon. We live in a world run, supplied and controlled by Amazon.
In Amazon Unbound, Stone offers the must-listen follow-up to his best seller The Everything Store, detailing the seismic changes that have taken place at Amazon over the past decade as it became one of the most powerful and feared companies in the global economy, led by one of the most powerful and feared leaders in business. He shows the acquisitions and innovations that have propelled Amazon’s unprecedented growth and the turn in public sentiment that criticises Amazon’s monopolistic practices. As he charts the company’s meteoric rise, Stone probes the evolution of Jeff Bezos - who started as a geeky entrepreneur but who transformed to become a fit, famed, disciplined billionaire, a man who runs Amazon with an iron fist but finds his personal life splashed over the tabloids.
Definitive, timely and revelatory, Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.
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- David
- 05-06-21
Great storytelling.
Really well written and easy to get into. Incredible story of the rise of Amazon
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- textlad
- 15-02-22
Very interesting and well worth a listen!
What an interesting book and some great insights into Amazon and Jeff Bezos.
Having really enjoyed Brad Stone's first book (Everything Store) I was worried this would not live up to expectations but I was very impressed.
Highly recommended.
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- Rhys White
- 23-10-23
A miander through along long a big river
Amazon unbound becomes risks becoming unhinged at points.
The authors other Amazon based book 'The Everything Store' shed a light into the back corners and told the reader a lot about Amazon this is a biography of Jeff Bezos written by the same guy - some of the same subject matter is touched, some content and themes carried over but it's a different thing. It dips into relationships with law makers, other tech giants the world of celebrity but never really seems to answer any questions.
It is a good book, well researched, slightly differential to Amazon and Bezos.
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- yusuf
- 23-11-21
A good read
For people who want to buy this to read along with the book, I can confirm it’s 100% word for word as written in the book.
It was a good insight to the empire of Amazon and jeff Bezos. I got the feel he is our John D. Rokefeller or Carnegie of our era
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- MR D Shukla
- 26-05-23
Excellent book on Amazon
really enjoyed listening to this book on Amazon and their journey written by Brad stone read his previous book on Amazon and this one didn't disappoint
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- Ricco
- 15-12-23
Great narration from Peter Larkey
Loved the Narration, book is long but not tiresome, narrator keeps it intriguing and easy to listen
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- Kindle Customer
- 24-01-23
Great piece of journalism
A lot if information and engaging story. I like the way of thinking of bezzos very much.
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- jdp
- 14-12-23
Very informative, easy listening
A great follow up to the authors previous book “The Everything Store”.
The story of Amazon is truly an incredible one with so many interconnected threads and businesses. Not many people alive today can say that they have not been impacted by Amazon—either as a retail customer or just browsing the Internet.
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- Ben Shore
- 06-08-21
Excellent book on Bezos and his many battles
Loved this book. Helps understand the incredible culture of Amazon, the way the business *actually* works, his rivalry with Elon Musk and an unputdownable sequence on his affair and subsequent information war with the National Enquirer.
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- Alan
- 08-03-23
Great book
Loved the story and details from other references.
Very well researched giving a lot of seemingly independent context
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