Think Like Amazon

Learn how to apply Amazon’s core principles and innovation frameworks to elevate your business and career. Join Jorge Luis Pando, an 8-year Amazon veteran who’s helped over 70,000 Amazonians boost productivity, as he dives into real-world insights from leaders who’ve transformed their work using Amazon-inspired methods like customer obsession and systems thinking. With global experience in product, tech, and marketing, Jorge brings a fresh perspective to every conversation.

Whether you lead a startup, growing business, or team outside of tech, each episode delivers practical tools to innovate, scale, and lead with confidence. Follow us on LinkedIn for updates: https://www.linkedin.com/company/think-like-amazon-podcast/

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Having Bias for Action for smart business growth with Andrea Leigh

Andrea spent 10 years at Amazon where she led over 15 product categories, helped launch Amazon’s automated pricing system, and ran Amazon Prime for Amazon Canada. During this time, Andrea made and oversaw many decisions where speed was critical to grow nascent programs and delight customers. Since leaving Amazon in 2015, Andrea has consulted hundreds of manufacturers and helped grow an agency business while continuing to make quick, calculated decisions and learn from mistakes. In this episode, ...

Apr 19, 2021•31 min•Ep. 7

Tenets and the Are Right A Lot principle with Dave Glick

Dave Glick spent 20 years at Amazon as a VP responsible for building much of Amazon’s pricing, warehouse management systems, and fulfillment technology. As an early executive at Amazon, Dave played a major role in Amazon’s adoption of tenets and in how the Are Right, A Lot principle is practices at the company. In this episode, Dave shares the stories behind Amazon’s use of tenets and the focus on diverse perspectives in Amazon’s leadership principles. Dave also shares his personal best practice...

Apr 12, 2021•26 min•Ep. 6

Decision making through Document Writing with Stefan Haney

Stefan Haney is a 15-year Amazon veteran, where he led multiple product, data, and technical teams during formative years of the Amazon marketplace. In addition to participating in countless narrative document reviews with Amazon’s senior leadership team, Stefan brings experience as a former instructor of Amazon’s internal writing class. In this episode, Stefan shares why writing has become a critical exercise for improving thinking and efficient decision making at Amazon. You’ll hear Stefan sha...

Apr 05, 2021•32 min•Ep. 5

Implementing separable, single-threaded Ownership with Alejandro Bethlen

Alejandro Bethlen spent 8 years at Amazon, first as a general manager for multiple Amazon US Retail teams and then in key executive and program roles in Amazon EU. In our interview, Alejandro expounds on Amazon’s approach to separable, single-threaded leadership and shares examples of how it sped up decision making for organizations. Alejandro pulls back the curtain to share how maintaining a single-threaded leadership culture can be difficult, particularly within young organizations and that th...

Mar 29, 2021•29 min•Ep. 4

Practical steps to help your team Think Big with Justin Maner

Justin Maner spent 10 years at Amazon where he was involved in quickly scaling several category teams before leading the turnaround of Amazon’s Baby Registry and managing innovation-centered teams as a director for Amazon Devices. In this interview, Justin dives into the Think Big principle and illustrates how he applied it to accelerate building for the Tools marketplace, develop a novel approach to quickly scale vendor sign-ups in the Pets category, and innovate on behalf of customers as he bu...

Mar 22, 2021•34 min•Ep. 3

Deliver Results by identifying the right inputs with Eugene Choi

Eugene Choi spent 7 years at Amazon as Finance Director for Retail Softlines and AWS Infrastructure prior to joining the executive teams of Oberto Snacks and Viacom CBS. In this episode, Eugene breaks down how he learned Amazon's input-focused process to uncover business opportunities and deliver results. Eugene shares how leaders can help both free up their teams and better serve customers by having the discipline to not follow competitors but instead focus on the key input drivers of a product...

Mar 18, 2021•26 min•Ep. 2

Welcome to the Think Like Amazon Podcast!

Welcome to the podcast where you'll get special access to learn from Amazon executives as they share how to apply Amazon's best principles and processes to grow your own business. Listen as Amazon's strategies, frameworks, and mechanisms are broken down through the personal experiences of senior Amazon leaders so that they can be replicated and applied in your work as manager, leader, entrepreneur, or digital innovator. In this introduction, host, Tyler Wallis, a former Amazon leaders himself sh...

Mar 15, 2021•18 min•Ep. 1

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