Amazon Unbound by
Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It's almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos's Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon's cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos's ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.
Hershey : Milton S. Hershey's extraordinary life of wealth, empire, and utopian dreams by
The name means chocolate to America and the world, but as author D'Antonio reveals, it also stands for an inspiring man and a uniquely successful experiment in community and capitalism that produced a business empire devoted to a higher purpose. 305 pages.
Black Titan : A.G. Gaston and the making of a Black American millionaire by
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A.G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over 130 million. By the 1950's he ruled a Birmingham-based business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. 320 pages.
Miss Jessie's : creating a successful business from scratch-- naturally by
A memoir and business guide rich with inspirational life lessons and unique business advice from ... the Chief Executive Officer of the dynamic 'Miss Jessie's'-- the company that revolutionized the hair-care industry 294 pages,
Spiced : a pastry chef's true stories of trials by fire, after-hours exploits, and what really goes on in the kitchen by
Follows the author's decision to leave her office job and become a pastry chef despite male-dominated kitchens. 274 pages