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.