Book · 2021 · Business & Economics
Working Backwards
Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
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And so if you go to um just do a Google search book club with Jason working backwards this book is so good in terms of it changed my thinking and I don't think we ever I'll put it in the show notes for everybody.
Jason Calacanis · This Week in Startups · Jun 2023 Listen at 31:06 What they say about it
- Amazon management book“which is the amazon book”2
- Great book on Amazon2
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Just buy working backwards for I don't know all 60 uh it'll cost you whatever 20 bucks per Buck you just do the math it's like 1200 bucks or something and then have a book club one Saturday or one Thursday night.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Jun 2023 I had Working Backwards by the way, which is the Amazon book, just because I'm trying to institute the writing culture inside of my companies.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Dec 2021 I think that if you read books about their history, I think a great one is Working Backwards.
Amazon Working Backwards is like hey you write the press release, you write the FAQ and internal FAQ and external FAQ and it just creates massive clarity.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · May 2022 There's a great book about Amazon's philosophy where they would write the marketing copy first.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Nov 2022 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr is a management book detailing the internal leadership principles, writing culture, and operational strategies that drove Amazon's massive success. Jason Calacanis repeatedly recommended the book on This Week in Startups, stating that it profoundly changed his thinking and urging startup founders to establish internal book clubs and writing cultures inspired by Amazon's methods. Ernie Garcia also recommended the book on Invest Like the Best as a premier resource for understanding how Amazon solved complex organizational communication problems. Additionally, David Senra discussed the book on Founders, comparing its insights on strategic vision to creative processes, and Jason Calacanis later noted on This Week in Startups how Amazon's rigorous meeting culture elevated team performance.
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Jason Calacanis and so if you go to um just do a Google search book club with Jason working backwards this book is so good… 12
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“And so then people started anticipating that person's questions and they said in the book working backwards which is the Amazon book that everybody's game got really higher because they knew that person was prepared had looked at the numbers and would always ask the question how did you come to that number”
Discussed
“and there's a great book working backwards that explains the philosophy and there's tons of short articles about it on the internet”
Book club
“there is an Amazon book uh and at Amazon uh working backwards is the name of the book yeah and we did a book club on it I don't know what episode that was but a bar raiser is somebody you hire”
Recommended
“and so if you go to um just do a Google search book club with Jason working backwards this book is so good in terms of it changed my thinking and I don't think we ever I'll put it in the show notes for everybody”
Recommended
“just buy working backwards for I don't know all 60 uh it'll cost you whatever 20 bucks per Buck you just do the math it's like 1200 bucks or something and then have a book club one Saturday or one Thursday night”
Discussed
“I've got what they call it in the the book working backwards but there's like there has to be a person in charge right of every project”
Discussed
“that's part of their philosophy with that book what was the book we read working backwards working backwards yeah there's a great book about Amazon's philosophy where they would write the marketing copy first”
Discussed
“so amazon working backwards is like hey you write the press release you write the faq and internal faq and external faq and it just creates massive clarity”
Recommended
“and if you don't know about bar raisers read the book uh about amazon called um working backwards what a great book read working backwards”
Recommended
“i like checklist manifesto i like working backwards i really love the no rules uh netflix culture book”
Recommended
“uh then i had working backwards by the way uh which is the amazon book just because i'm trying to institute the writing culture inside of my companies”
Book club
“uh yeah i mean i'm literally listening to the book i forgot the name of it but we're doing it in book club next week about the writing culture and it really is like right as a writer myself like writing is clarity of thought”
Ernie Garcia That said, I do think Amazon's done a tremendous job at solving this particular problem. That's just a fact… 1
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“That said, I do think Amazon's done a tremendous job at solving this particular problem. That's just a fact. And I think that if you read books about their history, I think a great one is working backwards.”
Ben Gilbert amazon web services lives within the amazon associates program and that is run by a guy named colin breyer… 1
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“amazon web services lives within the amazon associates program and that is run by a guy named colin breyer which is very very fun because colin goes on to do many things including recently 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”
David Senra So there's this great book called Working Backwards. It's on the way, basically how Jeff Bezos works. 1
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“So there's this great book called Working Backwards. It's on the way, basically how Jeff Bezos works.”