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How Amazon Web Services (AWS) Achieved an $11.5B Run Rate by Working Backwards

Hitenism

In a Quora thread , Ian McAllister, Director of Airbnb and former GM of Amazon describes the process: “ For new initiatives a product manager typically starts by writing an internal press release announcing the finished product. Your approach to your customers is a reflection of your company’s mission.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

It limits the amount of choices we make to ones that are well supported and well understood within the company. Geoffrey: The documentation of this idea came out of very small off site three to for years ago. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line. Born from an engineering offsite. Put us in that room.

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Katie Burke on company culture: building a better work culture

ProfitWell

When designing your culture code, here are nine mistakes to be aware of. Mistake 1) Assuming everyone in your company is on the same page about the culture you're building. When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?