{"product_id":"amazon-unbound-jeff-bezos-and-the-invention-of-a-global-empire-hardcover","title":"Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Everything\nStore\u003c\/i\u003e, an unvarnished picture of Amazon’s unprecedented growth and its\nbillionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of\nour time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e“If a company and a culture can have a biographer, Stone is Amazon’s—which,\ngiven the retailer’s ubiquity, makes him a biographer of the way all of us live\nnow.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling\nauthor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAlmost ten years ago, \u003ci\u003eBloomberg \u003c\/i\u003ejournalist Brad Stone captured\nthe rise of Amazon in his bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Everything Store\u003c\/i\u003e. Since\nthen, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa\nand disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size\nand its valuation has soared to well over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos’s\nempire, once housed in a garage, now spans the globe. Between services like\nWhole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s\nownership of \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, it’s impossible to go a day\nwithout encountering its impact. We live in a world run, supplied, and\ncontrolled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn \u003ci\u003eAmazon Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e, Brad Stone presents a deeply reported, vividly\ndrawn portrait of how a retail upstart became one of the most powerful and\nfeared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos\nhimself—who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon,\nbut who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global\nambitions; who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal\nlife splashed over the tabloids.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDefinitive, timely, and revelatory, Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait\nof a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrad Stone\u003c\/b\u003e is senior executive editor of global\ntechnology at \u003ci\u003eBloomberg News\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew\nYork Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the\nAge of Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been translated into over thirty-five languages,\nand\u003ci\u003e The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon\nValley\u003c\/i\u003e. He has covered Silicon Valley for more than twenty years and lives\nin the San Francisco Bay area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOK DEPOT INC.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44980275019983,"sku":"9781982132613","price":21.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_df089056-f35c-4a6b-8714-6c5db02e9704.jpg?v=1776157649","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/amazon-unbound-jeff-bezos-and-the-invention-of-a-global-empire-hardcover","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}