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Excerpts from The Upstarts, Volume 2: The Real Origins of Uber
The ride-hailing company Uber Technologies was invented by a Canadian and originally coded in Mexico. An excerpt from the book on Uber’s origins in The Guardian, published just as the world is taking a new look at Uber’s character amid charges of complicity with the Trump administration.
Read MoreExcerpts of The Upstarts, Volume 1: The Secret Weapons of Uber and Airbnb
Excerpts of The Upstarts are out today in Bloomberg Businessweek. This includes material from the introduction and chapters four and eight. And more is coming soon!
Read MoreSilicon Valley Reckons with its Political Power
Technology’s transformation of society seems to be speeding up. And now we know where it all leads: to the 25th floor of Trump Tower, and a central spot in the national dialogue over an evolving economy, with all its accompanying winners and losers. My opening essay in the 2016 year end issue of Bloomberg Businessweek.
Read MoreWelcome to Larry Page’s Flying Car Factories
A summer 2016 cover story in Bloomberg Businessweek on Larry Page’s secret flying car skunkworks with my pal Ashlee Vance.
Read MoreQuestions for Book Clubs About The Everything Store
I recently heard from a reader who was organizing a book club discussion of The Everything Store. “I couldn’t find any great resources, so I thought I’d take a chance and email you and see if you, as the author, have any suggestions,” she asked. After thinking about it a bit, I offered these 10…
Read MoreBlogging The Everything Store: Amazon is Santa Claus
On the Web, the grind and chaos of retail’s biggest day will be invisible—hidden hundreds of miles away, inside the massive warehouses of juggernauts like Amazon.com and Wal-Mart.
Read MoreThe Everything Store Wins ‘Business Book of the Year’
I’m delighted to report that The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon has won Business Book of the Year, awarded annually by the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs. Here’s the FT’s story about the evening, and some embarrassing photos of the ceremony which was hosted by Lionel Barner, FT editor, Lloyd Blankfein,…
Read MoreThe Everything Store, Italian Edition
The Everything Store is being translated into over a dozen languages. Today I received copies from the Italian publisher, Hoepli. According to Google, “Vendere tutto” translates into “Sell Out.” I hope that is not quite right…
Read MoreResponding to MacKenzie Bezos’s One-Star Slapdown of The Everything Store
One of the gratifying and terrifying things about writing a book in 2013 is that anyone can immediately publish their review of it.
Read MoreThe New York Times Review(s)
There’s no better – or tougher – reviewer than Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times. Today she casts her critical eye on The Everything Store. You can read the review here. Update: and here’s author Duff McDonald’s review of the book in the New York Times Book Review.
Read MoreMore Great Coverage
The Financial Times reviews “The Everything Store.” Sample: “Brad Stone, a technology journalist who first covered Amazon in 2000, has done a remarkable job in The Everything Store, in a way that (Jeff) Bezos would appreciate – by working very hard.” Here’s a fun conversation with Len Edgerly of the Kindle Chronicles podcast. I always enjoy…
Read MoreTalking with Author Daniel Pink About the Everything Store
In addition to penning several bestselling books like “To Sell is Human,” author Daniel Pink conducts Q&As with authors as part of his excellent “Office Hours” podcast. I’ve known Dan for about a decade and my fortuitous email to him about coming to Washington D.C. last week turned into this conversation. There are some very…
Read MoreTalking to NBC’s David Gregory about The Everything Store
On Sunday, I spoke to NBC’s David Gregory for a “Meet the Press” extra. Check out the video here.
Read MoreBlogging the Everything Store 2: Jeff Bezos’s League of Shadows
Bezos’s shadow, or Technical Advisor, allows him to magnify his impact and insight throughout Amazon.
Read MoreBlogging the Everything Store 1: Climbing Amazon’s Ladder
Most Amazon employees know OLRs as the meeting where careers and livelihoods can be won and lost in an instant.
Read MoreMedia Appearance Monday
Promoting The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.
Read MoreHow I Found Jeff Bezos’s Biological Father
Children with fractured or nonexistent relationships with one or both of their birth parents are more likely to end up with psychological or behavioral problems—not leading powerful nations, companies, or cultural movements. But in the case of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs — and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — the unusual circumstances of their birth seemingly helped to create an overpowering drive to succeed and to challenge the status quo.
Read MoreSecrets of the Amazon: “The Everything Store” Book Excerpts are Now Out!
Question mark emails. The Lubricant Crisis. Amazon’s battle with Diapers.com. And the incredible story of Jeff Bezos’s biological father, a unicycle performer and bike shop owner who never knew what became of his son.
Read MoreGrading the Kindle Fire as Amazon’s Tablet Turns Two
Two years ago, Bezos introduced the original Kindle Fire at one of those stereotypical press confabs in New York City. That first device was in many respects a dud. Now Amazon is taking on Google and Apple in the tablet market.
Read MoreAmazon Unveils New Kindle Readers
For the last six years, Amazon has constructed a nearly unbreakable hold on the digital-reading market, thanks in part to the company’s Kindle e-readers—and its ability to weave together attractive new features that broaden the reading experience.
Read MoreTalking About Jeff Bezos’s Buy of the Washington Post
These are a few of my media appearances talking about Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post – and previewing The Everything Store
Read MoreShocker: Jeff Bezos Buys the Washington Post!
The deal is surprising for a number of reasons. Bezos believes that the Internet is changing the entire business landscape, but so far he has seemed devoted to blazing new paths, not rescuing ailing old media franchises.
Read MoreWhy Hasn’t the Web Changed the Real Estate Business?
The Internet has eliminated travel agents, decimated classified ads, depressed stock brokers, and taken the swagger out of car dealers, but it hasn’t dented the fortunes of real estate brokers.
Read MoreBattered Dreams, Battered Dreamliner
The grounding of the Boeing 787 was in many respects inevitable for a project marked by narrowed visions and provides a dispiriting example of the shrinking tolerance for risk among corporate executives and government regulators.
Read MoreDoes Jeff Bezos Care About Profits?
The Bezos Doctrine is powerful. New businesses don’t have to be good. They just have to appeal to customers. As long as consumers are consuming and shareholders are buying what Bezos is selling, Amazon looks fairly unbeatable.
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