Colin Bryar: Author, Advisor, and Amazon Insider

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4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Colin Bryar coauthored "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. We also take you in the room and show how these principles and practices were used to create four key Amazon business: Kindle, Amazon Prime, Prime Video, and Amazon Web Services. Prior roles include Vice President at Amazon, two years as Technical Advisor to Jeff Bezos, COO at IMDb, and COO at Singapore-based RedMart. Great insights to innovation and processes on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth.
0:07.3	Smart spending drives growth, which is something Brex has championed. Brex isn't just a corporate credit
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0:24.1	on an AI-powered platform that turns every dollar into opportunity. In fact, 30,000 companies
0:32.9	are trusting Brex to help them win. Go to brex.com slash grow to learn more.
0:48.2	I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is Remarkable People.
0:52.6	Remarkable People is sponsored by the Remarkable Tablet Company. What a concept.
0:58.8	The Remarkable Tablet is a single purpose tablet for taking notes. It's not an iPad, because with an iPad,
1:06.4	you'll be checking social media, answering email, watching videos, totally defocused.
1:13.6	When you want to do deep thinking, the remarkable tablet is the way to go.
1:18.6	Today's remarkable guest is Colin Breyer.
1:21.6	Colin has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science from Cornell.
1:25.6	He worked at Amazon for approximately 13 years,
1:29.4	beginning in 1988. He held three positions at Amazon, director of Amazon Associates,
1:36.3	chief of staff of Jeff Bezos, and chief operating officer of IMDB. He and Bill Carr, also a former executive at Amazon, have written a book called
1:46.9	Working Backwards, Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon. If you want to create a company
1:53.4	as successful as Amazon, you'll cherish this episode. You'll learn key concepts such as
1:59.3	working backwards, that is, doing what customers want, as opposed to doing what you want,
2:05.1	the power of the six-page narrative and why Amazon banned PowerPoint, the highly structured and disciplined Amazon recruiting procedure,
2:13.6	and why two pizza teams with single-threaded leadership rocks.
2:22.3	In short, for the inside, behind-the-scenes story of Amazon's success,
2:24.2	you've come to the right podcast.
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