The everything store : Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon /
By: Stone, Brad [author.].
Publisher: London : Corgi Books, 2014Description: 463 pages : colour illustrations, plates ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780552167833; 9780552167833:; 0552167835.Subject(s): Bezos, Jeffrey | Amazon.com (Firm) | Booksellers and bookselling | Electronic commerce
| Success in business | EntrepreneurshipDDC classification: 381.142 Awards: Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year.Summary: Amazon made its mark sending new books quickly in nice, smile-embossed boxes. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the world's store, where everything is available to everyone, usually in 24 hours. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and drive and revolutionised retail the way Ford revolutionised manufacturing. Brad Stone has been given unprecedented access to Amazon employees, both current and former, to give readers a fly-on-the-wall narrative account of the world's largest online retailer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Amazon made its mark sending new books quickly in nice, smile-embossed boxes. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the world's store, where everything is available to everyone, usually in 24 hours. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and drive and revolutionised retail the way Ford revolutionised manufacturing. Brad Stone has been given unprecedented access to Amazon employees, both current and former, to give readers a fly-on-the-wall narrative account of the world's largest online retailer.
Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year.