Invent like an Owner with Dave Schappell Podcast
1) How Amazon Raised the Bar on Recruiting Talent | John Vlastelica
Today, in the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, Dave speaks with John Vlastelica to talk about how Amazon scaled recruitment. They’ll discuss the origin and impact of the Bar Raiser program, where select...Show More
2) What It Was like to Be Amazon’s 5th Software Engineer | Eric Benson
Today, in the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, Dave speaks with Eric Benson to discuss his myriad early software engineering projects at a time when Amazon was rapidly growing as a company. He implemente...Show More
3) How Amazon Prime’s Subscription Management Service was Invented | Neil Roseman & Jorrit Van der Meulen
Today, in the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, Dave speaks with Neil Roseman & Jorrit Van der Meulen. The discussion revolves around Amazon's DVD rental business which was launched outside of the US, the...Show More
4) How Amazon Built its Merchant Selling Platform | John Rossman
Today, in the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, Dave speaks with John Rossman. They talk about how the Merchants@ program was built from scratch, why working directly with third party sellers prompted the...Show More
5) How Amazon Created a Personalized Store for Every Customer | Josh Petersen & Matt Round
Today, in the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, Dave speaks with Josh Petersen and Matt Round. The conversation takes us back to Amazon’s early years, when the Personalization team was put together and bu...Show More
How Amazon Created a Personalized Store for Every Customer | Josh Petersen & Matt Round
1:03:53 | Jun 16th, 2021
6) How Amazon Built the World’s Biggest and Smartest Product Catalog | Rebecca Allen
Today, in the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, Dave speaks with Rebecca Allen. They travel through memory lane by talking about the restructuring of Amazon’s catalog using Base 36, the complications of r...Show More
How Amazon Built the World’s Biggest and Smartest Product Catalog | Rebecca Allen
1:00:45 | Jun 9th, 2021
7) How Amazon Used Imagination and Technology to Invent for Customers | Maryam Mohit
Today, in the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, Dave speaks with Maryam Mohit. They talk about the different iterations of the early Amazon website that massively improved customer experience. Key improve...Show More
8) How Amazon Built its Associates Affiliate Marketing and Got Big Fast | Shawn Haynes
Today, in the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, Dave speaks with Shawn Haynes. They discuss how the Amazon Associates team built and grew the affiliate marketing program. Shawn grew the team from several ...Show More
How Amazon Built its Associates Affiliate Marketing and Got Big Fast | Shawn Haynes
53:36 | May 26th, 2021
9) Building the Amazon Website in the Late 90s | Alex Edelman
Today, in the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, Dave speaks with Alex Edelman. They talk about how an English Major from the University of Pennsylvania joined Amazon as the company’s first dedicated “HTML...Show More
10) How Amazon Automated its Google Advertising and Drove Billions in Sales | Blake Scholl
Today, on the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, Dave speaks with Blake Scholl. They discuss Blake’s time working on the Amazon Personalization team, and how he went on to build the team that built Amazon’...Show More