In April 2021, I launched a podcast called “Invent Like an Owner“, where I interview the folks who built Amazon.com. It’s mostly a passion project, to keep me busy, but I also thought it would be a fantastic archive for future entrepreneurs to learn from. Early interviews have included discussions with early Technical Program Managers, VPs of Engineering, Search Engineers, Custom Service Leaders, and more. The first 6 episodes are linked below, to make it easy for you to get a sense for what I’m trying to capture.
- Episode 1 – Kim Rachmeler tells how we built Amazon in the early days
- Episode 2 – Joel Spiegel tells the story behind the launch of Amazon Marketplace
- Episode 3 – Dwayne Bowman and Ruben Ortega tell how we made rapid improvements to Amazon Product Search
- Episode 4 – Colleen Byrum and Jane Slade discuss innovation led by customer service feedback
- Episode 5 – Blake Scholl tells how his team built Amazon’s Automated Google Search bidding engine
- Episode 6 – Alex Edelman talks about how early front-end web developers worked with the ‘basic tools’ to build the Amazon website in the late 90s
Click here to check out all of the Invent Like an Owner podcast episodes.
If you have suggestions for topics or guests, please contact me.
