Nilay Patel

How was Vimeo structured and how are you restructuring it?

How was Vimeo structured and how are you restructuring it?

Single-threaded leadership is an Amazon concept. You've worked at all the companies, so I can pick out where the concepts come from. It's pretty fun for me. That's a classic Amazon concept. You need to have a pretty small team that owns a thing, and there's a leader who's responsible for the whole stack. That is how you get silos.

Single-threaded leadership is an Amazon concept. You've worked at all the companies, so I can pick out where the concepts come from. It's pretty fun for me. That's a classic Amazon concept. You need to have a pretty small team that owns a thing, and there's a leader who's responsible for the whole stack. That is how you get silos.

Single-threaded leadership is an Amazon concept. You've worked at all the companies, so I can pick out where the concepts come from. It's pretty fun for me. That's a classic Amazon concept. You need to have a pretty small team that owns a thing, and there's a leader who's responsible for the whole stack. That is how you get silos.

You can look at Amazon's product and say, oh, there's a bunch of single-threaded leaders here. This is not necessarily cohesive. Everything is running as fast as it can, but the holistic vision of the Amazon product suffers for it. right at scale at the end of that. You started out talking about having too many silos and we're talking about single-threaded leaders.

You can look at Amazon's product and say, oh, there's a bunch of single-threaded leaders here. This is not necessarily cohesive. Everything is running as fast as it can, but the holistic vision of the Amazon product suffers for it. right at scale at the end of that. You started out talking about having too many silos and we're talking about single-threaded leaders.

You can look at Amazon's product and say, oh, there's a bunch of single-threaded leaders here. This is not necessarily cohesive. Everything is running as fast as it can, but the holistic vision of the Amazon product suffers for it. right at scale at the end of that. You started out talking about having too many silos and we're talking about single-threaded leaders.

How are you managing that tension?

How are you managing that tension?

How are you managing that tension?

You brought up decisions. That's the other classic decoder question. I will warn you, this is a honeypot for former Amazon executives because when you ask Amazon executives how they make decisions, everybody sings chapter and verse. But you've been a bunch of places. You are now the CEO of this company. How do you make decisions? What's your framework?

You brought up decisions. That's the other classic decoder question. I will warn you, this is a honeypot for former Amazon executives because when you ask Amazon executives how they make decisions, everybody sings chapter and verse. But you've been a bunch of places. You are now the CEO of this company. How do you make decisions? What's your framework?

You brought up decisions. That's the other classic decoder question. I will warn you, this is a honeypot for former Amazon executives because when you ask Amazon executives how they make decisions, everybody sings chapter and verse. But you've been a bunch of places. You are now the CEO of this company. How do you make decisions? What's your framework?

Well, I applaud you for being the only former Amazon executive to not talk about one-way and two-way doors when I ask that question. You've done it. You've achieved escape velocity. Well done. I mean, I appreciate the one-way and two-way doors. I'm just saying.

Well, I applaud you for being the only former Amazon executive to not talk about one-way and two-way doors when I ask that question. You've done it. You've achieved escape velocity. Well done. I mean, I appreciate the one-way and two-way doors. I'm just saying.

Well, I applaud you for being the only former Amazon executive to not talk about one-way and two-way doors when I ask that question. You've done it. You've achieved escape velocity. Well done. I mean, I appreciate the one-way and two-way doors. I'm just saying.

I mean, at Google, I think they've proven that there's not a lot of one-way doors. Yeah, fair enough. Google's interesting. We've talked kind of a lot about YouTube during this conversation. Vimeo has... come out against YouTube. You have entire blog posts about how your search capabilities are better than YouTube's search capabilities. You're a better platform.

I mean, at Google, I think they've proven that there's not a lot of one-way doors. Yeah, fair enough. Google's interesting. We've talked kind of a lot about YouTube during this conversation. Vimeo has... come out against YouTube. You have entire blog posts about how your search capabilities are better than YouTube's search capabilities. You're a better platform.

I mean, at Google, I think they've proven that there's not a lot of one-way doors. Yeah, fair enough. Google's interesting. We've talked kind of a lot about YouTube during this conversation. Vimeo has... come out against YouTube. You have entire blog posts about how your search capabilities are better than YouTube's search capabilities. You're a better platform.