Brad Stone (journalist)

Brad Stone
Brad Stone at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Born	c.1971
Nationality	American
Occupation	Journalist & Author
Employer	Bloomberg News
Known for	The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone (born c. 1971) is an American journalist and New York Times best selling author. Stone is the author of the books The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013) and Gearheads: the Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports (2003). In January 2017, Little, Brown and Company will publish Stone's third book, The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World.

Brad Stone is senior executive editor of the global technology group at Bloomberg News and based in Bloomberg's San Francisco bureau. Previously, Stone was a senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek for which he has written numerous in-depth cover stories on leading technology companies, including Apple,Google,Facebook,Twitter,Yahoo and Amazon. Prior to Bloomberg, he was a reporter for the New York Times and Newsweek magazine. Stone is a frequent guest on Bloomberg West, a daily show focused on technology.

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.