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 significance of the Subscription Management Service, and the transition to the Agile/Scrum product development methodology at Amazon. Neil Roseman is the former VP for Software Engineering at Amazon. He is currently the Technologist in Residence at Summit Partners - a funding company …
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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'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 …