Book of the week: Amazon Unbound

Brad Stone explores everything Jeff Bezos has done ‘that has made him the richest man in history’

Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos speaks with Amazon employees after making a surprise appearance during an Amazon Veteran’s Day celebration
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This book has the wrong title, said John Arlidge in The Sunday Times. It isn’t really about Amazon; its focus is squarely on Jeff Bezos, and “everything the company’s founder has done that has made him the richest man in history”, worth some $190bn.

Having charted Amazon’s rise in an earlier book (2013’s The Everything Store), Brad Stone here compellingly describes Bezos’s proliferating interests over the past decade, from his growing obsession with space travel (which he sees as the solution to the Earth’s environmental crisis) to his conquest of cloud computing.

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