justinyan13's review against another edition
5.0
Key Lessons:
- Learn to disrupt
- Don't fear disruption just because it may alienate the customer base and core business in the short-term
- Put the customer above all else
- Always consider how the consumer might perceive any decision
- Hire people smarter than oneself
- Create a model that allows for long-term thinking, and short-term viability
- Combine attributes of a missionary and mercenary
- Never settle
- Work voraciously, live frugally
- Cut costs wherever possible
- Accumulate as much savings as possible
- Learn to disrupt
- Don't fear disruption just because it may alienate the customer base and core business in the short-term
- Put the customer above all else
- Always consider how the consumer might perceive any decision
- Hire people smarter than oneself
- Create a model that allows for long-term thinking, and short-term viability
- Combine attributes of a missionary and mercenary
- Never settle
- Work voraciously, live frugally
- Cut costs wherever possible
- Accumulate as much savings as possible
juliana_aldous's review against another edition
5.0
I finished this book yesterday in my doctor's office on my newest Kindle. I'm sitting here typing this as I just finished ordering merchandise off of Amazon Prime. I admit it--I both love and loathe Amazon and Bezos. Brad Stone has done an excellent job of laying out the story of the Bezos vision with a fair and balanced look at the company's history, practices and possible future.
egates08's review against another edition
4.0
Overall, I found the book rather intriguing. If you are like me and like to understand how things work, why businesses thrive, and how ideas are born you will like this book. The text is a bit long and can be tedious but as mentioned before, if reading about the development of a historical and game changing company is your idea of a good read, this is for you.
gracevnelson's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
2.75
The author buries the unicycle-themed lede so deep into the last chapter, I feel like I was bamboozled. This edition also had a shocking number of typos.
sonham's review against another edition
1.0
Schlecht editierte Audiodatei, Sprecher kann kein Englisch. Außerdem ist nicht jede Geschichte eines "großen Gründers" interessant. Überflüssiges Buch.
docjh's review against another edition
5.0
Extraordinary business book! I read this simultaneously with Stone's "Amazon Unbound" and while both are very good, "The Everything Store" is superior. The access that Stone had to early Amazon employees yields deep insight pre- and immediately post-IPO. Identifying and finding Bezos' birth father, sounds like a stunt, but it also results in useful insight. Lots of other material here - if you are going to read only one book about Amazon, this is the one.