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Amazon Web Services

Acquired

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What Is the Origin of Product Management in Silicon Valley?

Tim O'Reilly: Amazon's Web 2.0 strategy is based on the idea of no communication. He says Jeff Bezos and Andy Cevallos were exposed to this concept by Tim O'Reilly, who was a product manager at Microsoft in the 1990s. The two men decided that all internal work should be done via an API so other people can access it without having to talk to each other. "It makes sense if you are thinking about your company like an entrepreneurial organization"

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