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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
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics
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Publisher's Summary
New York Times Best Seller
“A masterful book.” (Marc Levinson, The Washington Post)
“A juicy tour of the company Bezos built.” (The New York Times Book Review)
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.
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 well over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos’s empire, once housed in a garage, now spans the globe. Between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post, it’s impossible to go a day without encountering its impact. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.
In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents a deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became one 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 revelatory, Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.
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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.
13 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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- 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.
6 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.
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.
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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.
2 people found this helpful
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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.
2 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.
1 person 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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- Darrell Ingram
- 2021-05-27
Great Book
This is a great overview of the last few years of Amazon behind the scenes. I read The Everything Store years ago and this book is almost as good.
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- Client d'Amazon
- 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.