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Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
- ▶ 32:04 Lenny Rachitsky There's a whole book called working backwards from their PR approach.
Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- ▶ 27:16 Tamar Yehoshua Read his shareholder letters, read the books about him, read Colin Breyer's Working Backwards, The Everything Box, I think it's called, or The Everything Store.
Working with Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 1:51 David Senra That was an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Working Backwards, Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon, and it was written by Colin Breyer and Bill Carr. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:02 David Senra They thought it was so important that they named the book out after it. 4 times in the scene
Scott Williamson: Hiring the Best Product People in Five Steps, Why the Best PMs are Writers | E1118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:05 Scott Williamson The way they do things, and if you haven't read Working Backwards, I recommend it.
The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)
- ▶ 24:08 Lenny Rachitsky We had one of the authors of the book Working Backwards on recently, and I'm excited to just hear what you've learned about how to actually put this into practice.
- ▶ 1:05:13 Anuj Rathi One book is Working Backwards.
Ep 70: Andrew McAfee on the Science Behind the World's Most Valuable Companies · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 15:41 Andrew McAfee And this great book working backward written by a couple of ex Amazonians who were there. 2 times in the scene
Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
- ▶ 0:36 Lenny Rachitsky Bill is the co-author of the book Working Backwards, which is a synthesis of the biggest lessons that Bill and his co-author learned from their many years at Amazon.
- ▶ 47:39 Lenny Rachitsky I think there's a version in your book maybe, but is there some online that we could point people to? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:13 Lenny Rachitsky If people want to dig deeper, there's obviously your book, Working Backwards, which we'll link to in the show notes.
- ▶ 1:32:21 Bill Carr Uh, you can post a review on Amazon for our book. 3 times in the scene
What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)
- ▶ 1:14:46 Lane Shackleton So you can read all about this in the book, Working Backwards.
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:21 Miles Grimshaw Um, more investors should sort of do it is, uh, you get started with investing books, which are useful, obviously, but the book like Working Backwards, which is about Amazon's culture, which is working backwards from the customer, serves…
Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)
- ▶ 30:43 Lenny Rachitsky There's a book, there's a whole book called Working Backwards Now.
Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:20 Cliff Obrecht The business book I'm really enjoying now is Working Backwards.
How to build your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)
- ▶ 1:15:52 Ravi Mehta I also really like working backwards. 3 times in the scene
What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (The Beautiful Mess)
- ▶ 38:17 John Cutler I was just reading that like, um, working backwards book about Amazon.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 29:01 David Rosenthal Co-authoring the book Working Backwards, which is a great book we used for a source in both this episode and the previous episode on amazon.com.
- ▶ 34:14 David Rosenthal There's a lot of good stuff in the Working Backwards book about this, about how hard it became to get anything done and built at Amazon because of this rat's nest of complexities involved on the technical and infrastructure side.
- ▶ 1:01:19 David Rosenthal And then they write working backwards.
- ▶ 1:01:23 David Rosenthal They now have a consulting firm together as part of working backwards to help companies implement the Amazon culture.
Look Back: UserZoom Eye's 2022 IPO, $100m Run Rate in User Experience Management Space
- ▶ 21:02 Alfonso de la Nuez I'm reading working backwards right now, but sapiens is a history of humankind. 2 times in the scene
Mini PE firm grow new acquisition to $2m ARR for gov contracting SaaS
The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group
- ▶ 13:39 Marty Cagan But you can read books like working backwards from Amazon describes what I talk about all the time, but it's using Amazon terms.
20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
- ▶ 13:46 Max Rhodes I think Working Backwards, the Amazon book, is also really excellent on this.
UserZoom Eye's 2022 IPO, $100m Run Rate in User Experience Management Space
- ▶ 19:43 Alfonso de la Nuez I'm reading working backwards right now, but sapience is a history of humankind. 2 times in the scene
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool
- ▶ 17:28 Aurelien Amaker So I'm going to name the, the second one after that would be, uh, uh, I mean, the great book that I've just read, it's working backwards by two senior, uh, former senior executive at Amazon, you know, it was very interesting.