Colin Bryar

Author, Advisor, Speaker, Co-Founder Working Backwards LLC, Former Amazon VP

[Colin Bryar @cbryar]

I'm discussing “Working Backwards & Agile: incompatible or complementary?” with @tomk_, Alan Atlas, @BillCarr89, @neilr, Tim OReilly, and Tech Builders. Today, Mar 11 at 8:00 PM PST on @joinclubhouse. Join us! https://t.co/lV9vBI7eUk

[Town Hall Seattle @THSEA]

.@cbryar & @BillCarr89 with @crashdev (livestream) An Insider’s Look at Amazon’s Culture, Leadership, and More. Tuesday, February 16 at 7:30PM pt. https://t.co/chwcsHMPvD @StMartinsPress

[Colin Bryar @cbryar]

@mikevladimer Customer surveys and beta testing can help you confirm or guide your decision making. But they are not a proxy for deeply understanding the customer. For existing products, inventors need to use the product, immerse themselves in usage data and study customer anecdotes.

[Colin Bryar @cbryar]

Honored to be on the a16z podcast! #workingbackwards #amazon

[a16z @a16z]

Those memos (no powerpoints!), working backwards from press release + more, these are the things we hear about Bezos and the power of narratives in Amazon's "invention machine". But how do these work, fit together? Can startups borrow? *New* 1st-book pod:
https://t.co/GOYekoj5wF

[Colin Bryar @cbryar]

@mikevladimer Glad you enjoyed the interview! We cover many of the answers in the book in chapter 5. Briefly, the PR/FAQ iterative process requires that you define the problem, and collect data on things like total addressable market and opportunity for a go/no-go call.

[Colin Bryar @cbryar]

Excited!! Just received the first shipment of Working Backwards from our publisher, St Martin’s Press. Available for pre-order at  https://t.co/Eh6mSA9PFQ. Looking forward to the Feb 9 release date! #workingbackwards