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Brad Stone

Brad Stone is an American journalist and author who writes about technology, Silicon Valley, and disruptive companies. He is best known for The Everything Store, Amazon Unbound, and The Upstarts, deeply reported books on Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Uber, and Airbnb that helped shape public understanding of modern tech power.

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Writing books about fast-growing technology companies is a little like jumping from a highway overpass onto a speeding train
-Author’s Note
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Out of the blue in 2019, I got a call from Amazon
-A True Story: I won $10,000 in Whole Foods Gift Cards
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At mighty Amazon, the omniscient computer program that practically runs the company’s supply chain is known internally as the Mechanical Sensei
-Blogging The Everything Store: Amazon is Santa Claus
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Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos believes his managers must raise the performance bar with every hire and promotion and that only exceptional talent should progress within the organization
-Blogging the Everything Store 1: Climbing Amazon’s Ladder
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Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t usually observe sentimental anniversaries
-Facebook Turns 10: the Mark Zuckerberg Interview
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Employees didn’t “work backwards” from their idealized customers, who had never asked for such a creation
-The Strange Tale of Jeff Bezos and the Single Cow Burger
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No author likes to read a negative book review
-Responding to MacKenzie Bezos’s One-Star Slapdown of The Everything Store
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Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail
-The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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Didi was one of dozens of ridesharing startups that sprouted in China in early 2012
-The Uber Slayer: the True Story of China’s Didi

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