The Ledger, every show
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Carr: Amazon developed nearly all core products and processes between 2003-2007
“This period of both product and process innovation actually occurred in this one narrow window of 2003 to 2007. During that window of time, all the products I just mentioned and all of the processes except for one Were all developed in this one four year perio…”
Carr: Only 10 of Amazon's ~500 leadership goals tracked financial metrics
“And I can't remember exactly what year, something around like two South, 2007, 2008. They, you know, looked at that list, which is about 500 items long, by the way, and they counted it up. And of that list, Only 10 of them actually had a financial metric in it…”
Carr: Amazon senior engineers maintained cross-org duties to preserve functional excellence
“Effectively what it also meant is that anyone who is a, an engineering vice president, or in many cases, a director, they would often have Something else beyond their day job of some sort of subject matter expertise area where they would also contribute to the…”
Carr: Amazon board meetings about launching the Kindle were highly contentious
“A lot of people inside Amazon doubted that the Kindle was going to be a good idea. I remember contentious, you know, board meetings on this topic.”
Carr: Bezos conceptualized the Amazon Echo voice assistant puck in 2004
“Jeff, Jeff wrote about a product, you know, there was a puck that sat on your, on the, in your kitchen that you would talk to and ask it for things and, you know, could shop from it. He wrote about that in 2004. Well, the technology wasn't there to be able to …”
Carr: Amazon tied executive compensation to stock price, not unit performance bonuses
“So there were no performance bonuses. So if I was running the book business and I had a killer year from a financial point of view, there was no like extra kicker for me. And if I ran the book business and it had a bad year, there was no financial penalty for …”
Carr: Amazon shielded early AWS and digital media teams with direct CEO oversight
“One was when we went to go build, you know, digital media and AWS, we put like two of our smartest, you know, leaders in the company on those things, Steve Kessel and Andy Jassy. And number two, they were meeting with Jeff regularly. Jeff was deeply engaged wi…”
Carr: Amazon required S-team plan alignment before granting team autonomy
“There's, there was an intense review process at Amazon where either, you know,
At some level, whether it be the vice president, senior vice president, or all the way up to the Jeff level and his direct reports called the S team, this plan would be reviewed and…”
Carr: Amazon measured its key selection input metric incorrectly for years
“We tell a story in the book about one of our most important input metrics, which was how much selection do we have? And we were actually not measuring that right for several years. We had to refine that measurement.”