An “inspirational” account of the rise of Amazon and Jeff Bezos, the ecommerce group’s founder, has won this year’s Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award.
The Everything Store, by journalist Brad Stone, was awarded the £30,000 prize for the year’s “most compelling and enjoyable” business book at a ceremony in London yesterday.
The award judges’ decision is at odds with the views of Mr Bezos’s wife, MacKenzie, who posted her own critical review of the book on Amazon, awarding it a single star out of a possible five. But Vindi Banga, a partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and a member of the judging panel, described The Everything Store as “inspirational” for young entrepreneurs and said it was “full of management lessons”.