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TIP506: How Jeff Bezos Built Amazon
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Bezos and Wilkie
Bezos brought in a young executive named Jeff Wilkie in 1999 to help fix the messes in their distribution centers. In many ways, it was a lot closer to manufacturing and assembly rather than a retail type setup. Bezos saw that companies like Microsoft had many layers of management that really added friction to decision making and sought to avoid such a structure that stifled innovation.
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