Brad Stone is a senior writer for Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He is the author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon and The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World.
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