Brad Stone (journalist)


Brad Stone is an American journalist and New York Times best selling author. Stone is the author of the books and Gearheads: the Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports. Stone's third book, The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World, was published in 2017.

Career

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.

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.
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.
In October 2013, Little, Brown & Co. published Stone's book The Everything Store about the rise of Amazon.com. 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.
In January 2017, Little, Brown & Co. published .

Awards and honors

Stone was raised in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, and lives in Northern California. He is an alumnus of the University School and Columbia University.