In the past decades, Amazon has expanded exponentially. It has innovated to serve customers and disrupted countless industries, while quintupling its workforce and increasing its valuation to nearly two trillion dollars. It's impossible to go a day without encountering Amazon's reach, from Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon's cloud computing unit, AWS, to Jeff Bezos's ownership of the Washington Post and beyond. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclastic founder. In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents a gripping portrait of how a retail upstart became one of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. With unparalleled access to executives, employees, regulators, and critics, Stone shows how seismic changes inside the company led to dramatic innovations, as well as to missteps that turned public sentiment against its sharp-elbowed business practices. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself-a man who started as a geeky technologist and morphed into a billionaire with global ambitions, who indulges in his riches and is the focus of tabloid obsession. Timely and revelatory, Amazon Unbound is the must-read saga of invention and innovation; mistrust and monopoly; fame, fortune, and hubris-all elements of the biggest business story of our generation. Book jacket.