Brad Stone is an American journalist and New York Times bestselling author. Stone is the author of the books, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire (2021), The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013), 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.