The definitive story of Amazoncom one of the most successful companies in the world and of its driven brilliant founder Jeff Bezos Amazoncom started off delivering books through the mail But its visionary founder Jeff Bezos wasnt content with being a bookseller He wanted Amazon to become the everything store offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices To do so he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy thats never been cracked Until now Brad 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 Compared to techs other elite innovators--Jobs Gates Zuckerberg--Bezos is a private man 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 THE EVERYTHING STORE will be 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.
