The idea is for each want to be like a self contained unit. In search, that's all engineers. But in some other business, like my aditional video business, it was like a combination of engineering and marketing people and people working the studios. So but you have all the resources you need. You don't have these dependencies that basly slow you down. This is work that's below the tip of the iceberg of where amazon really put a lot of effort into,. How can you still grow and be as nimble and agile as s were when we started out? And it's not easy. But no, it only gets harder. So you may as well start now.
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.