a16z Podcast: Amazon Narratives - Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More

By Andreessen Horowitz - 2021-02-08

Description

When you hear stories about Amazon’s “invention machine” — which led to a company with not just one or two products but several successful diverse lines of …

Summary

  • When you hear stories about Amazon’s “invention machine” — which led to a company with not just one or two products but several successful diverse lines of business — we often hear about things like: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon (out February 9) — authors Colin Bryar and Bill Carr share not only how Amazon did it, but how other companies can do it, too, drawing on their combined 27 years of firsthand observations and experiences from being in “the room” where it happens.
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Topics

  1. Stock (0.2)
  2. Management (0.17)
  3. Backend (0.08)

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