#544 Brad Stone -Amazon Unbound
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Brad Stone -Amazon Unbound
The Not Old Better Show, Author Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. I'm Paul Vogelzang and our packed show today includes this week's Healthy Headline about Laughter Therapy, along with today's guest, Brad Stone has written the most current, up-to-date, tell-all about Jeff Bezos and the ubiquitous Amazon!
Shopping on Amazon.com has become part of our lives, and the Amazon delivery trucks can be seen everywhere, in nearly every country, and every neighborhood and block here in the US. Half of US households are Amazon Prime members and Amazon's annual 2020 revenue was $386 BN!
Brad Stone, author of the new book "Amazon Unbound," tells us all about Amazon, the inside-the-store look at the largest online retailer in the world. Brad Stone tells us how he managed to get inside the Jeff Bezos bubble, despite the fact that Amazon is "a secretive company and Bezos is a secretive person." Brad Stone also says Bezos "won the Pandemic," by providing products from A to Z (amazon's logo), and delivery during the lockdown. A real coup, benefit, and relief for all of us needing supplies but unwilling and prohibited from shopping without our masks.
Brad Stone's new book, Amazon Unbound, is an unvarnished picture of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. Listen as Brad Stone reads a passage from his new book, 'Amazon Unbound,' telling us the story of how Jeff Bezos fell in love with the 'single cow burger.' An amazing story…
That of course was our guest today, author Brad Stone reading a passage from his new book, 'Amazon Unbound.'
Brad Stone is senior executive editor of global technology at Bloomberg News. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, which has been translated into over thirty-five languages. He has covered Silicon Valley for more than twenty years and lives in the San Francisco Bay area
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, I'm Paul Bogelsing, and our packed show today includes |
| 0:12.0 | this week's healthy headline about laughter therapy, along with today's guest Brad Stone |
| 0:16.7 | who has written the most current up-to-date, tell-all book about Jeff Bezos and the ubiquitous |
| 0:22.9 | Amazon. Shopping on Amazon.com has become part of our lives and the Amazon delivery trucks can |
| 0:30.7 | be seen everywhere in nearly every country and every neighborhood and block here in the United |
| 0:36.0 | States. Half of the U.S. households are Amazon Prime members and Amazon's annual 2020 revenue |
| 0:44.9 | was $386 billion. Brad Stone, author of the new book, Amazon Unbound Our Guest Today, |
| 0:52.3 | tells us all about Amazon the inside the store look at the largest online retailer in the world. |
| 0:59.2 | Brad Stone tells us how he managed to get inside the Jeff Bezos bubble despite the fact that Amazon |
| 1:06.5 | is a secretive company and Bezos is a secretive person. Brad Stone also says Bezos won the pandemic |
| 1:14.1 | by providing products from A to Z, Amazon's logo, and delivery during the lockdown directly to |
| 1:21.2 | our homes. A real coup, benefit, and relief for all of us needing supplies but unwilling and even |
| 1:27.6 | prohibited in some cases from shopping without our masks. Brad Stone's new book, Amazon Unbound |
| 1:33.7 | is an unvarnished picture of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, |
| 1:40.2 | revealing the most important business story of our time. And Brad Stone even reads a passage |
| 1:46.6 | from his new book, Amazon Unbound, telling us the story of how Jeff Bezos fell in love with |
| 1:52.8 | this single cow burger, an amazing story. Innovation takes a lot of different forms at Amazon. |
| 1:59.6 | Often it's in the form of a new product and but sometimes they're not even technical in nature. |
| 2:08.0 | Sometimes Bezos has an idea for something they can help distinguish another Amazon service. |
| 2:12.8 | In this case, it's grocery service. So I present to you Paul the story of the single cow burger |
| 2:19.0 | and this is from the chapter in my book about Amazon's grocery business. In 2015, the Washington |
| 2:25.4 | Post published an unappetizing article about how a single hamburger might contain the meat |
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