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I am the senior executive editor for global technology coverage at Bloomberg and the author of "Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire," published in May 2021 by Simon and Schuster.

The book is a sequel to my earlier work, "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon," which won the Book of the Year Award in 2013 from The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs. I'm also the author of The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley.

Over the last few years, I have authored a few dozen cover or feature stories for Bloomberg Businessweek on companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Costco and the Chinese tech companies Didi, Baidu and Xiaomi. I joined the magazine fro ...more

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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

Bloomberg Businessweek has published the very first excerpts from my new book, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire. It looks at the storm that enveloped Jeff Bezos's personal life in early 2019, and how he outmaneuvered the tabloid journalists who were trying to embarrass him.

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