The rise and fall of Amazon’s homegrown stores: A decade of retail experiments comes full circle The closure of the Amazon Go and Fresh stores is the end of an era for the online giant. We trace how Amazon got here — and why the only stores left are the chain it acquired. Read More
SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell as Blue Origin’s CEO? New book about Jeff Bezos says she was asked When it comes to his Blue Origin space venture, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos likes to say “slow is smooth, and… Read More
Podcast ‘Amazon Unbound’ is a portrait of a company ‘getting perilously close to invincible’ “I wonder what unit profitability was in 2017 without advertising?” That seemingly mundane question, posed by Jeff Bezos during a… Read More
Author of ‘The Everything Store’ planning new book on Amazon and Jeff Bezos This story has been updated with comments from Brad Stone. One of the first authors to pull back the veil… Read More
Podcast ‘Upstarts’ author Brad Stone on Uber’s scandals, Airbnb’s regulatory fight, and lessons from Amazon When it comes to disruption, Brad Stone wrote the book. Twice. The best-selling author of The Everything Store, a detailed account… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: The ‘upstarts’ of Silicon Valley; David Duchovny visits Seattle; and more 2007 wasn’t exactly a stellar year. It was the beginning of the worst economic crisis in the United States since… Read More
Author of Amazon exposé cites ‘heavy handed’ tactics as book gets tangled up in company’s Hachette dispute Amazon has started blocking users from pre-ordering books published by Hachette — including a book about Amazon itself — as… Read More
Enough, already! Amazon’s 1st employee takes MacKenzie Bezos to task for her blistering critique of Brad Stone’s book The reviews for Brad Stone’s book profiling Amazon’s early years are beginning to resemble something approaching a water cooler for… Read More
Author of Amazon book responds to review by Bezos’ wife — and Amazon disputes his response Brad Stone, the journalist whose detailed account of Amazon’s rise received a withering, one-star review from Jeff Bezos’ wife MacKenzie… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ wife issues 1-star review for new Amazon book, deems it ‘misleading’ Updated, 2:10 P.M. — Comment from Amazon added near the bottom of this story Out of the 44 reviews for “The… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: The inside story of Amazon, with author Brad Stone In less than two decades of existence, Amazon has emerged as a force not just in online commerce but in the… Read More
Amazon unpacked: Brad Stone on his new book, ‘The Everything Store’ Brad Stone’s new book about Amazon.com, “The Everything Store,” will be released on Tuesday — a definitive and unvarnished account… Read More
Review: ‘The Everything Store’ is the definitive story of Amazon When journalist Brad Stone first sat down with Jeff Bezos to discuss his plan to write a book about Amazon,… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ biological dad didn’t know his son was Jeff Bezos, until journalist informed him last year Ted Jorgensen is a 69-year-old former circus performer and unicyclist who runs a small bike shop in Glendale, Ariz. He has… Read More
