Brad Stone

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

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Press Play looks at how Amazon became the world’s most powerful retailer and got consumers hooked, and why you might not need your Prime membership.

Amazon is worth more than $1 trillion. How it got us hooked, and what might happen if it’s broken up

Press Play looks at how Amazon became the world’s most powerful retailer and got consumers hooked, and why you might not need your Prime membership.

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Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon have amassed incomparable power over the US economy, political discourse and social interactions.

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Many of the companies now at the center of Silicon Valley didn’t exist 10 years ago. We learn how Uber and AirBnB started, and why this generation of tech CEOs is different.

The story of startups that changed our culture

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