In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with Brad Stone, the Senior Executive Editor for Global Technology at Bloomberg. Brad is also a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of titles such as The Everything Store, The Upstarts as well as his new book Amazon: Unbound. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:

• (02:07) Why his first book on Amazon deserved a sequel 
• (11:05) Amazon’s explosive growth in multiple industries, as well as failures like the Fire phone.
• (25:36) The leadership style of Bezos, good and bad

*Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences.

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• Brad Stone books: Amazon: Unbound, The Everything Store, The Upstarts. 
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