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This section of the website includes all of my audio interviews with Amazon.com employees who were Invent Like An Owner podcast guests. Visit the Blog to read more in depth articles about topics discussed on the podcast. For your convenience, I have also created a list of Amazonian interviews on other podcasts.

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How Amazon Built the World’s Biggest and Smartest Product Catalog | Rebecca Allen

Rebecca Allen · June 9, 2021 · 2 Comments

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 recycling ISBNs that led to the creation of Amazon’s Standard Identification Number (ASIN), how the Title Authority feature helped customers find books through associations, the seemingly impossible to accomplish Used Books category, and so much more. Rebecca Allen is a former Software Engineer at …

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How Amazon Used Imagination and Technology to Invent for Customers | Maryam Mohit

Dave Schappell · June 2, 2021 · 3 Comments

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 improvements included navigation, browse, adding search to the homepage, personalizing the website, adding electronic gift certificates, expanding to new categories and much more. It was all made possible by listening to customers and translating their confusion and input into innovative product …

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How Amazon Built its Associates Affiliate Marketing and Got Big Fast | Shawn Haynes

Dave Schappell · May 26, 2021 · Leave a Comment

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 hundred initial affiliate marketing websites to more than 500,000 by the time he moved on. He shares how the learnings from early Associates economics, such as focusing on cost per new customer rather than margin on individual sales, helped inform the Premium Associates and Megadeals that Amazon …

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Building the Amazon Website in the Late 90s | Alex Edelman

Dave Schappell · May 19, 2021 · 13 Comments

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 Wizard”, why the V3 project (in 1997) was mainly about obsession over Customer Experience, the thrilling yet exhausting experience during Launch Nights, and how a boating accident led to shared Ownership through pager rotation. Alex Edelman is an internet veteran. He was Amazon.com's first web …

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How Amazon Automated its Google Advertising and Drove Billions in Sales | Blake Scholl

Dave Schappell · May 12, 2021 · 1 Comment

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's Automated Advertising engine, that dynamically placed ads on Google Ads (before Google even had an API). Amazon's Automated Advertising engine started slow, but went on to drive billions in profitable sales for the company. It was fun to hear not only about the successes, but also about the …

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