Posted by David Perel | October 17, 2013
The Secrets of Bezos
Amazon.com rivals Wal-Mart as a store, Apple as a device maker, and IBM as a data services provider. It will rake in about $75 billion this year. For his book, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Brad Stone spoke to hundreds of current and former friends of founder Jeff Bezos. In the process, he discovered the poignant story of how Amazon became the Everything Store.
Posted by David Perel | October 17, 2013
The genius behind Steve
Could operations whiz Tim Cook run the company someday?
Posted by David Perel | October 17, 2013
The Believer
As a founder of PayPal, Elon Musk made $250 million in an Internet minute. But then he got bored. He wanted a bigger challenge. Much bigger. So he asked himself: What are the three largest, most important, most difficult challenges of our time? The answer: solar power, space travel, and electric cars. Then he tried to tackle all three at once.
Posted by David Perel | October 16, 2013
All Is Fair in Love and Twitter
The sweet, innocent ideas and ruthless power plays that created Twitter.
Posted by David Perel | October 8, 2013
Two-Hit Wonder
Jack Dorsey, of Twitter, is now making big money at Square—and is out to prove that he’s more than a lucky man.