Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2022-10-26
Alex Kantrowitz & Carmel DeAmicis: books mentioned on Big Technology Podcast
How Figma Caught Adobe By Surprise — With Carmel DeAmicis
Carmel DeAmicis was the 20th employee at Figma, a startup that Adobe just acquired for $20 billion. A former journalist and editor at Figma, DeAmicis saw the company rise under the nose of Adobe — the giant in the space — and eventually grow so fast that Adobe acquired it in a defensive move.
Alex Kantrowitz discussed Always Day One by Alex Kantrowitz.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Always Day One
Always Day One by Alex Kantrowitz investigates the internal operations and management strategies of dominant technology giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
Discussed“Cause you've read about it. Cause you've, you helped me work on, on edits in my, my book always day one, but this is something that's in there.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Always Day One
“Well, I thank you privately for this, but I do want to thank you publicly for the amount of help that you gave to Always Day One. Definitely a different book after you come through it. So I appreciate that.”