The Everything Store

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon is a 2013 bestselling book written by journalist <a href="/facts/Brad_Stone_(journalist)/AGzDQ4rm">Brad Stone</a>. It documents the rise of <a href="/facts/Amazon.com/YzUTUVE8">Amazon.com</a> in the 1990s, its near demise during the <a href="/facts/Dot-com_bust/dCFWQt0s">dot-com bust</a>, and its subsequent revival with the inventions of <a href="/facts/Amazon_Prime/wnoY4K67">Amazon Prime</a>, the <a href="/facts/Amazon_Kindle/cmCbmvEs">Kindle</a> and <a href="/facts/Amazon_Web_Services/UFVN2796">Amazon Web Services</a>. It also recounts the childhood and early years of the company's founder <a href="/facts/Jeff_Bezos/VV9IzSa3">Jeff Bezos</a>, including his career on Wall Street working for the quantitative hedge fund <a href="/facts/D._E._Shaw/Yx8TEz7d">D.E. Shaw & Co., LLP</a>. 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.
The paperback edition, published in 2014, includes a lengthy email to the author from Amazon’s first CFO, the late <a href="/facts/Joy_Covey/g3cebhNh">Joy Covey</a>.
The book and its findings on Amazon’s internal workings and its relationship with suppliers have been cited in subsequent research and reports from regulators and legislators.

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The Everything Store