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"In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents a deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became one 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...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history with two percent of US household income being spent on nearly 500 million products shipped from warehouses in seventeen countries. Based on behind-the-scenes reporting from 150 sources inside and outside of Amazon, this book examines the underlying principles Bezos uses to achieve his dominance and shows how these are being borrowed and...
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"An insightful look at how Amazon really works and how its founder and CEO makes it happen. Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: Buy now with one click. Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique combination of character traits and business strategy...
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Harvard Business Review Press & Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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A collection of writings by the founder and CEO of Amazon includes a selection of Bezos's unusual annual shareholder letters, speeches, and interviews that offer insight into his background, his professional approaches, and the evolutions of his ideas.
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Conecta
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Como Henry Ford con Ford, Sam Walton con Walmart, o Steve Jobs con Apple, Jeff Bezos y su Amazon son la historia de negocios de la ďcada. El hombre m̀s rico del planeta y el futuro primer trillonario del mundo ha construido una de las m̀quinas creadoras de riqueza m̀d eficientes en la historia que representa el 2% del ingreso de Estados Unidos, gastado en cerca de 500 millones de productos enviados desde sus almacenes a 17 pa̕ses. Amazon no s̤lo...
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The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier. The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk...
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LID
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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Historias, curiosidades y anécdotas que definen y nos muestran la evolución de un personaje totalmente poliédrico. Jeff Bezos es el padre de Amazon. Es el genio más grande que ha habido en los negocios desde Rockefeller. Un tipo con un talento desbordante y un ejemplo digno de emular o el peor CEO del mundo según los sindicatos. Bezos sueña con llevar un día a toda la humanidad fuera de este planeta llamado Tierra, tan «aburridamente agotado»....
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The communication and leadership secrets of Jeff Bezos and how to master them, from the bestselling author of Talk Like Ted. Jeff Bezos is a dreamer who turned a bold idea into the world's most influential company, a brand that likely touches your life every day. As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, and present. He created a scalable model that grew from a small...
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Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is literally the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas... wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world:...
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Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In Billionaires, Darryl Cunningham offers an illuminating analysis of the origins and ideological evolutions of four key players in the American private sector--Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and oil and gas tycoons Charles and David Koch. What emerges is a vital critique of American capitalism and the power these individuals have to assert a corrupting influence on policy-making, political campaigns, and society writ...
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