
After Amazon, Bill was an Executive In Residence with Maveron, LLC, an early-stage, consumer-only venture capital firm. The authors you’ll spend some time with on this episode:īill Carr joined Amazon in 1999 and spent more than 15 years with the company. As Vice President of Digital Media, Bill launched and managed the company's global digital music and video businesses, including Amazon Music, Prime Video, and Amazon Studios. They demonstrate that success on Amazon’s scale is not achieved by the genius of any single leader, but rather through commitment to and execution of a set of well-defined, rigorously-executed principles and practices-shared here for the very first time. Working Backwards is a practical guidebook and a corporate narrative, filled with the authors’ in-the-room recollections of what “Being Amazonian” is like and how it has affected their personal and professional lives. So it’s hyperbolic, but possible to make the case that this is the most important business book….ever. Not only is Amazon one of the most valuable companies in the world, it has succeeded across a stunning array of categories from web services to movies. They had a front row seat for most of Amazon's history, and they are sharing what they learned in their new book.

Martin’s Press, February 9, 2021.) Bill Carr and Colin Bryar share Amazon’s secrets.

In their new book “WORKING BACKWARDS : Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon” (St.
