Stone is senior executive editor of the global technology group at Bloomberg News and based in Bloomberg's San Francisco bureau.[5] Previously, Stone was a senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, for which he has written numerous in-depth cover stories on leading technology companies.[6] Prior to Bloomberg, he was a reporter for The New York Times[7] and Newsweek magazine.[8] Stone is a frequent guest on Bloomberg Technology, a daily show focused on breaking technology news.[9] In January 2024, Stone was appointed editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and will oversee its transition from a weekly to a monthly publication.[10]
Works
In 2003, Simon & Schuster published his first book, Gearheads: The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports, about the combat robot culture.
On August 5, 2007, Stone published a story in The New York Times exposing Forbes editor Daniel Lyons as "Fake Steve Jobs," the author of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.[11][12]
On June 28, 2012, Stone wrote in Business Week about his interactions with Frenchman Alexandre Despallieres, an alleged conman with suspected ties to the death of music executive Peter Ikin.[13]
In October 2013, Little, Brown & Co. published Stone's book The Everything Store about the rise of Amazon.com.[2] Stone's reporting for the book led to the discovery of Jeff Bezos's biological father, an Arizona-based bike shop owner, who was previously unaware that his son was the founder and CEO of Amazon.com.[14]
In May 2021, Simon & Schuster published Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, about Amazon's rise to become a trillion-dollar company and Bezos's emergence as the wealthiest person in the world.
^ abStone, Brad (2017-01-31). The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World (Lrg ed.). Little, Brown and Company. ISBN9780316396813.
