“Bezos is a fan of e-mail newsletters such as VSL.com, a daily assortment of cultural tidbits from the Web, and Cool Tools,… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“The companies that solved the innovator’s dilemma, Christensen wrote, succeeded when they “set up autonomous organizations charged with building new and independent… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“from his company. After the stock market crash in 2000, Amazon went through two rounds of layoffs. But Bezos didn’t want to… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“At the same time, Bezos became enamored with a book called Creation, by Steve Grand, the developer of a 1990s video game… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Unlike traditional retailers, Amazon returned few unsold books, often less than 5 percent. The big book chains regularly returned 40 percent of… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Just like Creation author Steve Grand had predicted, the creatures were evolving in ways that Bezos could not have imagined. It was… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized… — Brad Stone Existence Copy Share Image
“Bezos had seemingly made up his mind that he was no longer going to indulge in financial maneuvering as a way to… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Bezos kept pushing for more. He asked Blake to exact better terms from the smallest publishers, who would go out of business… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“He turned them into real-life versions of an M. C. Escher drawing, automating them to the rafters, with blinking lights on aisles… — Brad Stone Computers Copy Share Image
“Usenet bulletin-board posting, August 21, 1994: Well-capitalized start-up seeks extremely talented C/C++/Unix developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet. You must… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“He had the marketing department organize tests, running commercials in only the Minneapolis and Portland media markets and measuring whether they generated… — Brad Stone Investing Copy Share Image
The one thing that Airbnb had was, Brian and Joe were designers, and they did a great job. They also had Nate… — Brad Stone Designers Copy Share Image
I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts.… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“In a world where consumers had limited choice, you needed to compete for locations,” says Ross, who went on to cofound eCommera,… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“Eric Benson took about two weeks to construct a preliminary version that grouped together customers who had similar purchasing histories and then… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Wilke subscribed to the principles laid out in a seminal book about constraints in manufacturing, Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s The Goal, published in… — Brad Stone Books Copy Share Image
“Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary,… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
On Sept. 12, 2016, there was a momentary realignment in the constellation of global business. For the first time, the five largest… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“The first week after the official launch, they took $12,000 in orders and shipped $846 worth of books, according to Eric Dillon,… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
