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How will Amazon maintain its culture as it approaches 1.3 million employees and prepares for its founder Jeff Bezos to step down as CEO? One answer is the set…
Former Amazon board member Tom Alberg reviews the new book, ‘Working Backwards’ February 9, 2021 at 11:24 am Madrona Managing Director Tom Alberg, one of Amazon’s first investors, speaks with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a Madrona event in 2015. (Madrona Photo) [Editor’s Note: Tom Alberg, managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group, was an Amazon investor who served on the company’s board of directors from 1996 to 2019. He’s the author of the forthcoming book, “How Big Are Your Town’s Flywheels? – What We Can Learn from Seattle.”] I am often a...
Praise for Working Backwards “Rather than offering a dull catalog of the company’s 14 leadership principles and three implementation mechanisms, Mr. Bryar and Mr. Carr provide concrete and accessible examples of how these are put into practice across a range of functions, from hiring and communications to organizational and product design." -- New York Times “[ Working Backwards] should be read by anyone interested in the real thing—the principles, processes and practices of 21st century management and leadership.” -- Steve Denning, Forbes "This book reads like a how-to guide, whic...
Courtesy Amazon Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. After 27 years, Amazon will have a new CEO for the first time. When Jeff Bezos steps down in July, he’ll be replaced by Andy Jassy, a company executive who joined Amazon in 1997, only three years after its founding. Jassy has for the last 15 years run Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s unsexy but innovative and highly profitable cloud computing business that controls about a third of the cloud industry and powers websites big and small all across the globe. Jassy will be taking the helm as Amaz...
Packages sent through the mail. i did so when i was in the fbi working backwards with u.s. postal inspection service in order to identify where certain devices would come. people think that, well, we just look at the return address or look at a label coding. it's a lot more sophisticated than that. i won't go into specifics, but i can tell you, the law enforcement officers are very good at what they do. and if these devices were indeed sent through the u.s. postal service, through some type of commercial delivery service, there is a level of sophistication there that i think in short order the...