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If you want to create a company as successful as Amazon, you’ll cherish this episode. He and Bill Carr, also a former executive at Amazon, have written a book called Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon. He held three positions at Amazon: director of Amazon Associate, chief of staff of Jeff Bezos, and chief operating officer of IMDB. He worked at Amazon for approximately thirteen years beginning in 1998. This week’s guest on my Remarkable People podcast is going to share his experience from the inside of the innovation of Amazon.Ĭolin Bryar has a Bachelor of Science and Masters of Engineering from Cornell. How did Amazon become one of the most successful companies of all time?

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