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Amazon Unbound
- Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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The Everything Store
- Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- Written by: Brad Stone
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't 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 that's never been cracked. Until now.
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Principals
- By Anonymous User on 2020-07-24
Written by: Brad Stone
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An Ugly Truth
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- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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A lot of info proven now to be false
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Tim Cook
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The death of Steve Jobs left a gaping void at one of the most innovative companies of all time. Jobs wasn't merely Apple's iconic founder and CEO; he was the living embodiment of a global megabrand. It was hard to imagine that anyone could fill his shoes - especially not Tim Cook, the intensely private executive who many thought of as Apple's "operations drone". But seven years later, as journalist Leander Kahney reveals in this definitive audiobook, things at Apple couldn't be better.
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chronically and no story
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No Filter
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Phenomenal: engaging, funny, fascinating.
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The Everything Store
- Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- Written by: Brad Stone
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't 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 that's never been cracked. Until now.
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Principals
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Written by: Brad Stone
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An Ugly Truth
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- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Once one of Silicon Valley’s greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users’ data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech.
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A lot of info proven now to be false
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Tim Cook
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The death of Steve Jobs left a gaping void at one of the most innovative companies of all time. Jobs wasn't merely Apple's iconic founder and CEO; he was the living embodiment of a global megabrand. It was hard to imagine that anyone could fill his shoes - especially not Tim Cook, the intensely private executive who many thought of as Apple's "operations drone". But seven years later, as journalist Leander Kahney reveals in this definitive audiobook, things at Apple couldn't be better.
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chronically and no story
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No Filter
- The Inside Story of Instagram
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- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple but irresistible feature: It would make anything you captured look more beautiful. The cofounders cultivated a community of photographers and artisans around the app, and it quickly went mainstream. In less than two years, it caught Facebook’s attention: Mark Zuckerberg bought the company for a historic one billion dollars when Instagram had only 13 employees.
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Phenomenal: engaging, funny, fascinating.
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- Written by: Jimmy Soni
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- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
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Award-winning author and biographer Jimmy Soni explores PayPal’s turbulent early days. With hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, he shows how the seeds of so much of what shapes our world today—fast-scaling digital start-ups, cashless currency concepts, mobile money transfer—were planted two decades ago. He also reveals the stories of countless individuals who were left out of the front-page features and banner headlines but who were central to PayPal’s success.
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The Cult of We
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The definitive history, packed with untold stories, of one of America’s most controversial and powerful companies: Facebook. Based on hundreds of interviews from inside and outside Facebook, Levy’s sweeping narrative of incredible entrepreneurial success and failure digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.
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Great look into one of the world's worst companies
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Worth a read but with healthy skepticism
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After Steve
- How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost its Soul
- Written by: Tripp Mickle
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
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Intersting, but a lot of suposition
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Working Backwards
- Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
- Written by: Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
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- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Working Backwards is a practical guidebook and a corporate narrative, filled with the authors’ in-the-room recollections of what “Being Amazonian” is like and how it has affected their personal and professional lives. They demonstrate that success on Amazon’s scale is not achieved by the genius of any single leader, but rather through commitment to and execution of a set of well-defined, rigorously executed principles and practices - shared here for the very first time.
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Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, best-selling author of The Culture Map and one of the world's most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial philosophies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from his own career, No Rules Rules is the full, fascinating, and untold story of a unique company making its mark on the world.
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Too good for a headline. Please read my review.
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- How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
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- Narrated by: Dean Temple
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Ten years ago the idea of getting into a stranger's car or walking into a stranger's home would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business, and changing the way we travel. In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries.
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Two books instead of one?
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- Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
- Written by: Tim Higgins
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In-depth coverage of the Tesla story
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Sam Walton
- Made in America
- Written by: John Huey, Sam Walton
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late 20th century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. In a story rich with anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream.
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What it means to commit everything to your dream.
- By Rondon Tahal on 2019-06-05
Written by: John Huey, and others
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- Written by: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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Hey Elon, you hiring?
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-05
Written by: Ashlee Vance
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Jony Ive
- The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
- Written by: Leander Kahney
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The best-selling author of Inside Steve's Brain profiles Apple's legendary chief designer, Jonathan Ive. Jony Ive's designs have not only made Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world; they've overturned entire industries, from music and mobile phones to PCs and tablets.
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It's more about the essence than the content
- By zerto on 2021-08-06
Written by: Leander Kahney
Publisher's Summary
A Washington Post Notable Book
This New York Times best seller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the best-selling author of The Everything Store.
Almost 10 years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his best seller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’ Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’ ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.
In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents an “excellent” (The New York Times), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself - who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions, who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids.
Definitive, timely, and “engaging” (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America), Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.
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- Andrew M.
- 2022-02-10
Good Read
I felt it was a bit unfair in a number of ways because it took too much information from dissidents with previous work at Amazon. It would be great to have an authorized bio once Jeff gets a little older.
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- Asutosh Tripathy
- 2021-05-14
Great book and content. Awful narration
Content is superb, no doubt.
Narration is awful. Super thick voice with words not clearly or sharply enunciated.
Hard to hear while driving unless you are fully paying attention to the narration in which case you are not paying attention to the road.
16 people found this helpful
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- Spencer Perry
- 2021-05-20
The Best Value You Can Find In Audiobooks
This book is worth ten times it's cost, the time it will take you to read/listen to it, and all of the time you will spend thinking about the subject matter going forward. Seriously, Stone hit it out of the park again with a well-researched, well-formatted, and well-written book that will undoubtedly be read for years to come.
After reading Stone's 'The Upstarts' three years ago, I immediately went to his Twitter to keep an eye out for what he would be working on next. When I saw it was another book about Amazon I was slightly bummed, because I felt like he was THE startup chronicler, and Amazon no longer felt like a startup, but WOW, I was wrong.
Stone weaves enjoyable and exciting narratives across decades. He always has me leaving a book feeling like I'd closely followed the business news surrounding the company (or companies) for years, with the added benefits of a rigorous book editing/fact-checking process and phenomenal insights gathered from exclusive interviews.
Overall, I'm confident you will greatly enjoy this book, just as I have.
9 people found this helpful
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- Arthur MILCHIOR
- 2021-05-23
not about Amazon but about Bezos
the title lies and that’s the only reason for the 2 stars about the story. I wanted to know a lot about Amazon, and I got entire chapter about blue origin, Washington post, a divorce and a tabloid scandal. They had unfluence on amazon direction so should maybe be mentionned in passing. but there is almost nothing about actually amazon ! sSince the author explained Bezos had less time to give to amazon, this is not excusable. if you re title it as a story about Bezos and not about Amazon, it should be 5 stars
the audio quality is great however
6 people found this helpful
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- Selim
- 2021-08-22
Fantastic boom - horrible narration
The narrator has such a thick and slurry pronunciation that it makes it hard to follow. Would highly recommend re-recording that book.
5 people found this helpful
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- David
- 2021-06-01
Where do they find the narrators?
Enjoying the content a couple hours in, but where do they find these people to narrate? The reader constantly slurs like a drunk person, feel like I need a drink too to get through the rest of the book.
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- Hectoris
- 2021-07-26
Not the Everything Store
I listened too and enjoyed the authors previous book on Bezos, the Everything Store, however this current book, is poorly written, much of the consent is drawn from Marxist advocates from Union workers to anti business Government officials. The author sites comments by one or 2 disaffects, to lambast the whole Amazon empire. Whether its a disgruntled employee in NJ or an anti business activist fresh out of University, it is short on hard meaningful data. It views anything Amazon says as probably dubious. Very disappointing listen.
4 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-06-10
Great people like Nancy Pelosi and Michelle Obama
Wish it was recounting facts only. Way too politically opinionated. Sounded like objective journalism.
Narration killed me.
4 people found this helpful
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- Jeffrey Epstein
- 2021-06-25
This is no JOBS
Unlike the book JOBS, which illuminates Steve Job’s character through the lens of his inventions and business, this book is all facts and figures — raw research — that does not illuminate Jeff Bezos’ character and is less than the sum of its parts. In short, it is extremely boring, notwithstanding the intelligent and clear performance of the reader.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-05-12
Surprisingly captivating and easy to follow.
Enjoyed this one and was surprised by how much! it really captures the ups and downs of Amazon's rise and let's the reader come to their own conclusions.
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- Doug Desenberg
- 2021-10-09
Great story…but the reader!
Really good laying out of the Amazon story. The reader however is just awful. His voice sounds like a half drunk chain smoker from a 60’s corporate training video
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- Damien Geradin
- 2021-11-29
The narrator is terrible
This is a good book but the audio version is terrible. The narrator is dreadful. He sounds like if was drunk.
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- Kamil Debbagh
- 2021-09-21
Great second part to « the everything store »
Loved it. Especially via Audible, with great voice acting.
My only disappointment is the fact that this book seemed to me more or a collection of facts, rather than a true analysis.