The first 20 minutes of a meeting would be silent. People are just focused on reading. There's no sound. They're entering questions, and sometimes the presenting team can answer them right in the comments. The six page narrative forcing function to where you can cover that amount of information in a one hour meeting.
In this episode from February 2021, early Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr -- in conversation with a16z's Sonal Chokshi -- go beyond the well-known artifacts of Amazon innovation, like the memo and the press release, and share the leadership principles, decision making practices, and operational processes that helped Amazon continue to innovate, invent new products and learn from its mistakes, as it scaled.
It’s all based on their book, Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon, drawing from the 27 years combined experience of being in the room where it happened at Amazon.