Journalist, Author
Brad Stone is an American journalist and author who serves as editor of Bloomberg Businessweek. He is best known for The Everything Store, his definitive account of Jeff Bezos and the rise of Amazon, which won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. His other books include The Upstarts, on the rise of Uber and Airbnb, and Amazon Unbound.
by Brad Stone
Stone chronicles Bezos's relentless, customer-obsessed drive to transform Amazon from online bookstore into global commerce and cloud empire. Visionary brilliance meets ruthless execution.
by Brad Stone
Stone, author of The Everything Store, parallel-tracks the founding stories of Uber and Airbnb to show how two side projects reshaped transportation, hospitality, and labor. The book argues that the sharing economy's success depended on regulatory arbitrage as much as on technology or design.
The books Brad Stone references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Jim Collins
Collins studied why some good companies become great and others do not. The answer: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action, not bold transformation programmes.
by Clayton Christensen
Christensen explains why successful companies fail: they rationally ignore disruptive innovations that initially serve small, unprofitable markets, until those markets overtake them entirely.
by Steven Levy
Levy had unprecedented access to Google's founders, engineers, and executives over two years to chronicle the company's algorithms, culture, and strategic battles. Levy argues that Google's engineering-led culture and willingness to automate judgement represented a fundamentally new way of building a company.
by Walter Isaacson
Isaacson portrays Jobs as a study in contradictions - visionary and cruel, obsessive and brilliant. His core thesis: Jobs' relentless pursuit of perfection and control over end-to-end products reshaped entire industries.
Who Brad draws from, and who draws from Brad — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.