Brad Stone is senior executive editor of global technology at Bloomberg News. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, which has been translated into over 35 languages, and The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley. His new book, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, chronicles the major factors in the company’s rise. Stone has reported on Silicon Valley for more than twenty years and lives in the San Francisco Bay area.