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Brad Stone is an American journalist and bestselling author, born around 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, a position he assumed in January 2024. Stone has an extensive background in technology journalism, having served as the senior executive editor for technology at Bloomberg News, where he oversaw coverage of high-tech companies and internet trends.

Stone is the author of several notable books, including The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013), which chronicles the rise of Amazon and its founder, Jeff Bezos. This book became a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller and won the 2013 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. He also wrote Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire (2021), which explores Amazon’s transformation into a global powerhouse. His other works include The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World (2017) and Gearheads: The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports (2003).

A graduate of Columbia University, Stone began his career as a reporter for The New York Times and Newsweek. He has authored numerous cover stories on major technology companies for Bloomberg Businessweek and is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg’s technology programming. Stone resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three daughters.