Do You Have Tenets?

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The f a cs is actually the equivalent of doing the inoculation technique. It allows you to separate the thing that the tenant and then what flows from that. At amazon, sometimes you guys spent meetings after meetings just debating to get the tenats right. And i realize that a lot of those things get we litigated. So it was one of the ways i which amazon was very effective as a management company.

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.