Brad Stone (journalist)
{{short description|American journalist and author (born c. 1971)}}
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| education = Columbia University (BA)
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| employer = Bloomberg Businessweek
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Brad Stone (born {{circa}} 1971) is an American journalist and author.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2013/11/03/business-books/|title=Business Books - Best Sellers - November 3, 2013 - The New York Times|work=The New York Times |access-date=2017-01-08}} He is the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek since January 2024. He is the author of the books The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013), Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire (2021), The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World, and Gearheads: the Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports.{{cite book |last=Stone |first=Brad |title=The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon |year=2013 |publisher=Little Brown and Co |location=New York |isbn=9780316219266 |oclc=856249407 |url=http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brad-stone/the-everything-store/9780316219266/}}{{Cite book|title=The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World|last=Stone|first=Brad|date=2017-01-31|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|isbn=9780316396813|edition=Lrg|language=English}}
Early life and education
Stone was raised in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, and lives in Northern California. He is an alumnus of Columbia University.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=Summer 2014|title=Brad Stone '93 Examines Amazon and the Man Behind It|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/summer14/bookshelf20|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226153447/http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/summer14/bookshelf20 |archive-date=2016-12-26 |access-date=December 21, 2020|website=Columbia College Today}}
Career
Stone is senior executive editor of the global technology group at Bloomberg News and based in Bloomberg's San Francisco bureau.{{cite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/authors/411-brad-stone |title=Brad Stone |work=Bloomberg BusinessWeek |accessdate=2013-11-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121042744/http://www.businessweek.com/authors/411-brad-stone |archivedate=2013-11-21 }} Previously, Stone was a senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, for which he has written numerous in-depth cover stories on leading technology companies.{{cite web|last=Bishop |first=Todd |url=http://www.geekwire.com/2012/amazon-burning-the-book-business-or-just-finding-a-better-way |title=Amazon: Burning the book business or making it better? |publisher=GeekWire |date=2013-10-26 |accessdate=2013-11-21}} Prior to Bloomberg, he was a reporter for The New York Times{{cite news|last=Stone |first=Brad |url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/brad_stone/index.html |title=Brad Stone - The New York Times |work=The New York Times |accessdate=2013-11-21}} and Newsweek magazine.[http://www.newsweek.com/web-risks-108763 Web of Risks] Stone is a frequent guest on Bloomberg Technology, a daily show focused on breaking technology news.{{cite web |url=http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/does-bill-gates-miss-being-an-operator/3xirvjr6?cpkey=bb337679-73b1-45c3-b2ec-780936809256%257c%257c%257c%257c |title=Does Bill Gates Miss Being an Operator? - Bing Videos |publisher=Bing.com |accessdate=2013-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203033410/http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/does-bill-gates-miss-being-an-operator/3xirvjr6?cpkey=bb337679-73b1-45c3-b2ec-780936809256%257c%257c%257c%257c |archive-date=2013-12-03 |url-status=dead }} In January 2024, Stone was appointed editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and will oversee its transition from a weekly to a monthly publication.{{Cite news |last=Robertson |first=Katie |date=January 24, 2024 |title=Brad Stone Named Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/business/media/brad-stone-bloomberg-businessweek-editor.html |work=The New York Times}}
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.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/technology/06steve.html | work=The New York Times | first=Brad | last=Stone | title='Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean | date=2007-08-06}}{{Cite web |url=http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/ |title=The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs |access-date=2007-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711034240/http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/ |archive-date=2007-07-11 |url-status=dead }}
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.{{cite web|author=With Carol Matlack |url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-28/the-talented-m-dot-despalli-res |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701032821/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-28/the-talented-m-dot-despalli-res |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 1, 2012 |title=The Talented M. Despallières |work=Bloomberg BusinessWeek |date=2012-06-28 |accessdate=2013-11-21}}
In October 2013, Little, Brown & Co. published Stone's book The Everything Store about the rise of Amazon.com. 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/10/10/bezos-amazon-biological-father/2959633/|title=Bike shop owner discovers he's father of Amazon founder|newspaper=USA TODAY|access-date=2017-01-08}}
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.
In May 2021, Simon & Schuster published Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, about Amazon's rise to become a trillion-dollar company and Bezos's emergence as the wealthiest person in the world.
Awards and honors
- 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, winner for The Everything Store{{cite web |url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/fe6ced92-2091-11e3-9a9a-00144feab7de.html#axzz2fXzwqqic |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221211221258/https://www.ft.com/content/fe6ced92-2091-11e3-9a9a-00144feab7de#axzz2fXzwqqic |archive-date=December 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Finalists that are worthy of a bruising debate |work=Financial Times |author=Andrew Hill |date=September 18, 2013 |accessdate=September 21, 2013 }}{{cite news |newspaper=Financial Times |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/64165720-5047-11e3-befe-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2l4yliYK8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221211221214/https://www.ft.com/content/64165720-5047-11e3-befe-00144feabdc0#axzz2l4yliYK8 |archive-date=December 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |author=Andrew Hill |date=November 18, 2013 |accessdate=November 19, 2013 |title=Account of Jeff Bezos and Amazon wins Business Book of the Year }}
References
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External links
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