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Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

Colin Bryar and Bill Carr · 2021
Mentioned 10 times across 3 podcasts · 2021–2026
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Mention timeline10 mentions
20212026
Where it's mentioned
2026
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jun 2026 · 44:58
“there's a whole book on working backwards that goes really deep on this approach ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
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2025
Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Apr 2025 · 32:04
“there's a whole book called working backwards from their pr approach ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
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2024
Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2024 · 29:15
“i know you talked to my old boss bill carr who were working backwards yeah what i don't know is if he shared with you that after he published it he actually realized there were ha there was a better title he wishes that he had called the book the invention machine ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 16s
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2023
#321 Working with Jeff Bezos
Founders · Sep 2023 · 1:50
“that was an excerpt from the book that i'm going to talk to you about today which is working backwards insights stories and secrets from inside amazon and it was written by colin briar and bill car ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s
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Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Apr 2023 · 30:43
“there's a book there's a whole book called working backwards now yeah yeah ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
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Building your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2023 · 75:52
“i also really like working backwards i think amazon has such a unique way of going about building product ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
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What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (Amplitude, The Beautiful Mess)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2023 · 38:16
“i was just reading that like um working backwards book about amazon ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
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2021
Ernie Garcia - Disrupting the Auto Buying Experience - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 45]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Aug 2021 · 53:11
“if you read books about their history i think a great one is working backwards ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
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#184 Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons)
Founders · Jun 2021 · 27:34
“the bonus up was i just did on amazon's process of building new products called working backwards ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
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Jeff Bezos (Insights, Stories, and Secrets)
Founders · May 2021 · 1:50
“the book that i'm gonna talk to you about today which is working backwards insight stories and secrets from inside amazon uh written by colin briar and bill carr ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s
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