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Replay 2025: David Sacks on AI, Crypto, and America's Technology Future
As part of our summer replay series, we're revisiting one of our most-discussed conversations from the past year. David Sacks joins Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg to discuss the intersection of AI, crypto, regulation, and American competitiveness. The conversat ... Show More
1h 17m
Apr 28
John and Patrick Collison on Stripe's Growth, Agent Commerce, and the Future of Software
This interview with Stripe cofounders John and Patrick Collison originally aired on TBPN. They discuss Stripe's 34% growth and new employee tender offer, how agent commerce and stablecoins may require high-throughput blockchains built for millions of transactions per second, and ... Show More
20m 2s
Apr 6
Peter Yang on Small Teams, Coding Agents, and Why Human Ambition Has No Ceiling
Anish Acharya speaks with Peter Yang, creator and product lead at Roblox, about how personal AI agents are replacing the apps we open every day, why coding agents feel like slot machines, and what happens when the cost of building software drops to near zero. They discuss why fut ... Show More
28m 37s
May 2021
Jeff Bezos (Insights, Stories, and Secrets)
What I learned from Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr.
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[3:58] What is best for the customer? Do that: "Amazon believes that long-term growth is best produced by putting the customer first. If you held this conv ... Show More
1h 3m
Feb 2021
#105: Colin Bryar Co-author of Working Backwards Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Colin co-authored the book, "Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon," which is a first-person account of how Amazon created and implemented the principles and processes that have made it successful. He takes you in the room and shows how these princi ... Show More
43m 4s
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
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
with @billcarr89 @cbryar @smc90
When you hear stories about Amazon's famous "invention machine", we often hear about things like: Memos, six pages exactly and no powerpoints at al! Or, the idea of "work backwards from the press release". But what's lost is the how, as well as the broader narrative of how all companies and leaders, not just Amazon and Bezos, ... Show More
<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
