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Bill Carr

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in Princeton, The United States

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Bill Carr joined Amazon in 1999 and spent more than 15 years with the company. As Vice President of Digital Media, Bill launched and managed the company's global digital music and video businesses, including Amazon Music, Prime Video, and Amazon Studios. After Amazon, Bill was an Executive In Residence with Maveron, LLC, an early-stage, consumer-only venture capital firm. Bill later served as the Chief Operating Officer of OfferUp, the largest mobile marketplace for local buyers and sellers in the U.S. Today Bill is co-founder of Working Backwards LLC where he coaches executives at both large and early-stage companies on how to implement the management practices developed at Amazon. Bill holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colby College an ...more

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	Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar (Goodreads Author), Bill Carr (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 7,321 ratings — published 2021 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il libretto rosso di Amazon: I segreti del metodo Jeff Bezos raccontati da due insider 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

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Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

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