How Amazon Builds High Performing Teams
Level Up with Ethan Evans (retired Amazon VP)
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The Importance of Self-Service and Empowering Teams
This chapter discusses the importance of self-service in scaling a team and the mindset of enabling third-party sellers. The speaker talks about adopting a marketplace mindset from their experience with AWS and empowering customers to contribute to the system. They also discuss how they traded effort for latency optimization and created a portfolio balance for prioritizing work. Additionally, they mention providing support and resources to teams with platform gaps while still maintaining control over the architecture.
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