Ep. 944: Bill Carr Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Bill Carr. He joined Amazon in 1999 and spent more than 15 years with the company. As Vice President of Digital Media, Bill launched and managed the company's global digital music and video businesses, including Amazon Music, Prime Video, and Amazon Studios.
The topic is his book Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Amazon History
- Book Business
- Amazon Echo & Alexa
- How Amazon Build Customer Trust
- Zoom and Skype
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.3 | I receive pitches all the time for this podcast. |
| 0:37.3 | Often those pitches are from A-L publishers, A-list PR firms. |
| 0:43.5 | I respect the hell out of them. |
| 0:46.0 | They bring great talent to this podcast. |
| 0:49.5 | They make my life very easy. |
| 0:53.2 | So when I get pitched that two long time Amazon employees have got a little |
| 0:59.3 | book out figuratively a little, but they've got a little book out about Amazon and their experience |
| 1:06.7 | there, their decades long experience there. Guess what? I want to talk to them because I want to |
| 1:15.0 | know what I can learn from the Amazon experience. I still recall back in the day. It was not |
| 1:22.1 | fait accompli. It was not a given that Amazon would become Amazon. There's absolutely nobody on the planet that can say |
| 1:30.1 | in the late 90s, oh yeah, I knew Amazon would become Amazon today. You're lying if you say that. |
| 1:36.8 | Just not the case. My guest today, Bill Carr joined Amazon in 1999, spent 15 years at the company, |
| 1:47.2 | VP of digital media. He helped launch the global digital music and video businesses there, including Amazon Music, Prime Video, and |
| 1:53.4 | Amazon Studios. He had a catbird seat to a lot. I don't know about you, but I love these |
| 2:00.4 | autopsy conversations. |
| 2:02.4 | Let me get in and dig behind the scenes. |
| 2:04.4 | Let me learn something. |
| 2:05.3 | Let me find something out. |
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