Wei: Bezos encoded strategic messages to make them stick with employees
Eugene Wei · 20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse · Nov 22, 2021 · at 11:19
Eugene Wei, former Amazon strategy team member and product executive, discusses corporate messaging and communication with 20VC host Harry Stebbings.
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“Jeff realized, hey, I actually have to encode my messages and deliver them in a way which makes them memorable, and so I saw him evolve his way of communicating to the company in order to sort of really, like, harden his messages, to make them almost viral, to make them stick in people's heads”
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