Brad Stone is a senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and the author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, which provides a definitive account of the e-commerce giant and offers keen insights into the history and remarkable growth of a company widely regarded as uniquely innovative, disruptive and often polarizing. Since joining Bloomberg from the New York Times in the fall of 2010, Stone has written more than a dozen cover stories on companies such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and the Chinese search firm Baidu. He is also the author of Gearheads: The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports. Stone is based in the San Francisco area.