Bezos owns a rocket company, called Blue Origin and in August he invested in old media, purchasing The Washington Post for $250 million.īezos himself is the 12th richest person in the U. In the process of becoming "an everything store," Amazon acquired many other dot-coms including Zappos and, and expanded into selling web services as well. The book won the 2013 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up the Kindle Fire HD in two sizes during a press conference in Santa Monica, Calif., in September 2012.Īmazon started off selling books, but Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO, always had the intention of turning it into an online market that sold everything. The book and its findings on Amazon’s internal workings and its relationship with suppliers have been extensively cited in subsequent research and reports from regulators and legislators. The paperback edition, published in 2014, includes a lengthy email to the author from Amazon’s first CFO, the late Joy Covey. Stone was allowed access to many current and former Amazon executives, as well as Bezos’s parents and personal friends, but had only limited interaction with Bezos himself. It received its first one-star review on Amazon from MacKenzie Bezos, then wife of Jeff Bezos, claiming many inaccuracies while pointing out only one, the timing of Jeff Bezos reading the novel Remains of the Day. It won the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs Book of the Year award in 2013. The book was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller and has been translated into more than 35 languages. As part of his research, Stone tracked down Ted Jorgensen, Bezos’s biological father, who operated a bike shop in Glendale, Arizona, and did not know that his son had become one of the most famous businessmen in the world. It also recounts the childhood and early years of Jeff Bezos, including his career on Wall Street working for the quantitative hedge fund D.E. It documents the rise of in the 1990s, its near demise during the dot-com bust, and its subsequent revival with the inventions of Amazon Prime, the Kindle and Amazon Web Services. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon is a 2013 bestselling book written by journalist Brad Stone.
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