Brad Stone (journalist)
Brad Stone | |
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Brad Stone at the 2013 Texas Book Festival | |
Born | c.1971 (age 46–47) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Journalist & Author |
Employer | Bloomberg Businessweek |
Known for | Journalism and authorship |
Brad Stone (born c. 1971) is an American journalist and New York Times best selling author.[1] Stone is the author of the books The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013) and Gearheads: the Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports (2003).[2] Stone's third book, The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World, was published in 2017.[3]
Career
Brad Stone is senior executive editor of the global technology group at Bloomberg News and based in Bloomberg's San Francisco bureau.[4] Previously, Stone was a senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek for which he has written numerous in-depth cover stories on leading technology companies, including Apple,[5] Google,[6] Facebook,[7] Twitter,[8] Yahoo[9] and Amazon.[10] Prior to Bloomberg, he was a reporter for The New York Times[11] and Newsweek magazine.[12] Stone is a frequent guest on Bloomberg West, a daily show focused on technology.[13]
Works
In 2003, Simon & Schuster published his first book, Gearheads: The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports, about the combat robot culture.
On August 5, 2007, Stone published a story in The New York Times exposing Forbes editor Daniel Lyons as "Fake Steve Jobs", the author of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.[14][15]
On June 28, 2012, Stone wrote in Business Week about his interactions with Frenchman Alexandre Despallieres, an alleged conman with suspected ties to the death of music executive Peter Ikin.[16]
In October 2013, Little, Brown & Co. published Stone's book The Everything Store about the rise of Amazon.com.[2] Stone's reporting for the book led to the discovery of Jeff Bezos's biological father, an Arizona-based bike shop owner, who was previously unaware that his son was the founder and CEO of Amazon.com.[17]
In January 2017, Little, Brown & Co. published The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World.[3]
Awards and honors
- 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, winner for The Everything Store[18][19]
Personal life and education
Stone was raised in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, and lives in Northern California. He is an alumnus of the University School (1989) and Columbia University (1993).
Notes
- ↑ "Business Books - Best Sellers - November 3, 2013 - The New York Times". Retrieved 2017-01-08.
- 1 2 Stone, Brad (2013). The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. New York: Little Brown and Co. ISBN 9780316219266. OCLC 856249407.
- 1 2 Stone, Brad (2017-01-31). The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World (Lrg ed.). Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780316396813.
- ↑ "Brad Stone". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on 2013-11-21. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ "Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer's Apprentice at Apple". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. 2011-10-12. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ "Inside Google's Secret Lab". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. 2013-05-22. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Makes Operations Personal - Liz Gannes - Social". AllThingsD. 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ "Twitter, the Startup That Wouldn't Die". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. 2012-03-01. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ With Douglas MacMillan (2013-08-01). "Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo?". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ Bishop, Todd (2013-10-26). "Amazon: Burning the book business or making it better?". GeekWire. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ Stone, Brad. "Brad Stone - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ Web of Risks
- ↑ "Does Bill Gates Miss Being an Operator? - Bing Videos". Bing.com. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ Stone, Brad (2007-08-06). "'Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean". The New York Times.
- ↑ The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
- ↑ With Carol Matlack (2012-06-28). "The Talented M. Despallières". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ "Bike shop owner discovers he's father of Amazon founder". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
- ↑ Andrew Hill (September 18, 2013). "Finalists that are worthy of a bruising debate". Financial Times. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
- ↑ Andrew Hill (November 18, 2013). "Account of Jeff Bezos and Amazon wins Business Book of the Year". Financial Times. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
External links
- Brad Stone interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network