Exploring the Rise of Jeff Bezos and Amazon: How One Man's Vision Built an International Empire

Rui: You can see the author put in the time and research to develop a thorough yet easy to read book. A good read for everyone interested in Amazon and technology in general.

United Kingdom on Oct 01, 2023

John: This illustrates much of the history of Jeff's business decisions. Many that are illustrated as wrong may yet still come to fruition. A must read for MBA's.

United States on Sep 26, 2023

john verwey: Excellent book on the story of Amazon. Lots on interesting facts that I was not aware of. Well worth the read

Canada on Sep 10, 2023

investor66: important things to think about before you start big adventure

United Kingdom on Jul 27, 2023

Lourdes: Solo que es pesado de leer. Pero en presentación, calidad de tapa y Envio, perfecto

Mexico on Jun 30, 2023

WWoman: Behemoth is the best explanation I’ve ever seen of what Amazon does and why it does what it does. The writing is crystal clear and as compelling as a novel. Most important of all, it shows what the Amazon-dominated future will look like, as nascent Amazon businesses – from banking to healthcare to security to groceries – become huge, as they almost certainly will: “What’s striking is the sheer range of initiatives, and the scale at which they are occurring.”

Behemoth warns that in order to keep Amazon from anti-competitive behaviors, greater regulation may be needed: “Insisting on data transparency and giving a digital platform regulator power to enforce both openness and basic principles ... would transform Amazon without destroying it.”

This book is must reading for anyone who wants to truly understand our digital world and where it is headed.

United States on Mar 12, 2023

cegi 1967: Excellent coverage of Amazon beyond its traditional retail business

Italy on Aug 22, 2022

The Rebecca Review: Brad Stone writes with the intensity of an investigative reporter and the creativity of a suspense novelist with a little sensationalism intertwined. Every word is carefully placed to induce the attention you'd pay to the most interesting subject you could imagine. For me, what happens at Amazon is so compelling that I need to read every book written about Jeff Bezos and Amazon. If you've read The Everything Store and One Click, this is like the next level and covers everything significant going on at amazon lately.

What happens at Amazon seems so easy to the customer, but behind-the-scenes an incredible amount of work is going on. The Amazon employees who make everything possible should win the highest awards. How ideas turned into reality is basically what this book is about. You will learn amazing things about Alexa and who her voice really belongs to. Jeff Bezos was also so clever when selecting Alexa's name. You will also get a crash course in how artificial intelligence learns.

The work that makes amazon what it is is mind blowing. In my mind at least I feel that the employees at Amazon are the smartest in the world. And Jeff's ideas have always led us into the...

United States on Jun 25, 2021

C: This is the second book from author Brad Stone about the history of Amazon.com, and the evolution of both the company and its founder, Jeff Bezos. Stone explains in the the Introduction, that in the years since writing his previous book The Everything Store in 2013, Amazon has seen unprecedented growth. The company has created new flagship products, and branched out into so many other industries, that a new and updated look at both the company and the man were necessary. Stone contends that Bezos himself has also changed over the years, as his wealth has grown with the success of his company. Unfortunately, Bezos was not interviewed for the writing of this book, so most of the information about him is pieced together from friends and former employees, or other interviews and public appearances.

The book starts with stories about the development of Alexa, the Fire Phone, and the Amazon Go stores. The next few chapters cover the international growth of Amazon, and Amazon's cloud computing service AWS. Here you get a bit of a window into how Bezos attempted to guide Amazon's culture within the company. The next few chapters cover the acquisition of the Washington Post and...

United States on May 11, 2021