He has a dog named Loki, a Schnoodle, which is a cross between a Schnauzer and a Poodle. He is currently attempting to teach his young twin daughters to root for the Browns, Indians and Cavaliers. It covers the emergence of what was then the new breed of robot hobbyists and hardware hackers.īrad graduated from Columbia University in 1993 and is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. The book was a BookSense 76 pick and the San Francisco Chronicle selected it as one of the best books of 2003. From 1998 to 2006, Brad served as the Silicon Valley Correspondent for Newsweek magazine, writing for the technology and business sections of the magazine and authoring a regular online column.īrad is also the author of one previous work of non-fiction, Gearheads: the Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports. In addition to writing for the paper, he wrote a weekly column, Ping, and was a founding writer of the paper’s technology blog, Bits. He covered Internet trends, as well as Silicon Valley’s biggest companies from the newspaper’s San Francisco bureau. Brad joined Businessweek from the New York Times, where he had been a reporter since 2006. When he’s not attempting to deconstruct the high-tech firms charting our future, he has written about beleaguered domestic airlines, weaponized drone warplanes, the retail giant Costo, and traced the deceptions of an international con-artist and alleged murderer.
Over the last few years, he’s authored over a dozen cover stories on companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook and the Chinese search firm Baidu. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing.īrad Stone is a senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek. Compared to tech’s other elite innovators–Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg–Bezos is a private man. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that’s never been cracked. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. started off delivering books through the mail.
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