Amazon Unbound is an audiobook by Brad Stone, narrated by Pete Larkin. The unabridged Audible edition runs 16 hrs 33 mins.
Publisher’s Summary
This New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store.
Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.
In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents an “excellent” (The New York Times), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself—who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions, who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids.
Definitive, timely, and “engaging” (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America), Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 16 hrs 33 mins
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Release year: 2021
- Audible category: Biographies & Memoirs / Professionals & Academics / Business
Listener Ratings
Amazon Unbound holds an average listener rating of 4.5/5 from 943 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.5/5
- Story: 4.5/5
- 5-star ratings: 63% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “Great book!”
I enjoyed the behind the scenes views of what made Bezos and Amazon tick. I learned a lot and enjoyed how the book unfolded.— Sherron, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Another great story by Brad Stone”
I Absolutely loved this book. It’s well written and well researched. A great thriller.— Audible customer, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “A fascinating Read. “
learned much more than I thought that I might about Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Definitely a great read.— tsefcik, Audible listener
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