Inside Amazon: Insights, Stories, Secrets | How To Academy

Tue, 9 March 2021

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm GMT

Inside Amazon: Insights, Stories, Secrets

Colin Bryar and Bill Carr

How does Amazon work? Join us for an insider’s breakdown of Amazon’s approach to decision-making, innovation, and leadership, with lessons to adapt for your own business or organisation.

Colin Bryar started at Amazon in 1998; Bill Carr joined in 1999. They worked as top-level executives in the period when products and services including Kindle, Prime, and Amazon Web Services came to life; a period of unmatched innovation that drove the company to global dominance and still shapes how we live, shop and work today.

In this livestream event, they will offer first-hand insights into the business philosophy that powers Amazon’s innovation and growth. They will explain the leadership principles and ground-level practices that ensure these flow through all aspects of the business, offering a practical guide to “Being Amazonian” which will debunk the myth of the single genius leader and instead share for the first time the principles and practices which have led to Amazon’s success.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur seeking to learn from Amazon’s model of explosive growth or simply want to hear an inside-account of the business story of our age, don’t miss this exclusive livestream event.

 

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Colin Bryar

Co-Founder of Working Backwards and former Amazon VP

Colin Bryar spent 12 years as part of Amazon’s senior leadership team as the business grew from a domestic (US-only) seller of books to a global, multi-dimensional powerhouse and innovator. Colin served as a Vice President at Amazon, and for two of his years he was “Chief of Staff” to Jeff Bezos, AKA “Jeff’s shadow”, during which he spent each day attending meetings, traveling with, and discussing business and life with Jeff.

Bill Carr

Co-Founder of Working Backwards and former Amazon VP

As Vice President of Digital Media, Bill Carr launched and managed the company’s global digital music and video businesses, including Amazon Music, Prime Video, and Amazon Studios. After Amazon, Bill was an Executive In Residence with Maveron, LLC, an early-stage, consumer-only venture capital firm. Bill later served as the Chief Operating Officer of OfferUp, the largest mobile marketplace for local buyers and sellers in the U.S.

Private: Matthew Stadlen

Broadcaster, writer and regular How To Academy host.

Matthew Stadlen is a broadcaster, writer and regular How To Academy host. Previously he was an LBC presenter, wrote The Matthew Stadlen Interview for the Telegraph and presented the TV series Five Minutes With and On The Road With for the BBC. He is a birdwatcher and photographer, and his book How To See Birds is out now. Twitter: @matthewstadlen