What can today’s startups learn from Amazon’s so-called “invention machine” and a culture of growth and innovation that led to several successful and diverse lines of products? As it scaled, how did Amazon define and adapt its culture and practices to promote innovation even as it got more complex and large? Longtime Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr ta ... Show More
Nov 2023
Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
<p><strong>Bill Carr </strong>is the co-author of <em>Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon</em>. With a background at Amazon of over 15 years, Bill played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s global digital music and video ventures, including Am ... Show More
1h 33m
Apr 2015
59. Early Amazon Engineer and Co-Developer of the Recommendation Engine, Greg Linden
As you know, we’ve been trying to cover from every angle, the innovations that ecommerce sites in general, and Amazon.com specifically, brought to the world. That is why I was thrilled to get to speak with Greg Linden, who was one of the Amazon engineers who was responsible for a ... Show More
1h 3m
Jan 2023
314: Bill Carr, What drives Amazon's success? (Strategy Skills classics)
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">where we interviewed the</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">former Amazon Digital Media VP, Bill Carr. Bill is the coauthor of</span> <em><spa ... Show More
1h 15m
Mar 2023
562: What drives Amazon’s success? (with Bill Carr)
For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classics where we interviewed the former Amazon Digital Media VP, Bill Carr. Bill is the coauthor of Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon, an insider's breakdown of Amazon's a ... Show More
1h 13m