Think Like Amazon
Episodes
#41: Redefining Ownership and Rewriting Limiting Beliefs with Kristiana Corona
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Think Like Amazon, Jorge sits down with Kristiana Corona (executive coach and former Amazon leader) to unpack what true ownership l...
#40: Scripting Big Bets for Your Business and Career with John Rossman
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Think Like Amazon, Jorge welcomes back John Rossman, former Amazon executive who led the launch of Amazon Marketplace and author of...
#39: Living with Intention and Extracting Full Value with Steve Huynh
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Part 2 of this Think Like Amazon conversation, former Amazon Principal Engineer Steve Huynh returns to explore a different kind of leadership and l...
#38: “You’re Thinking Too Small”: How to Truly Innovate with Steve Huynh
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think “Think Big” means adding features or scaling up. Steve Huynh, an 18-year Amazon veteran turned content creator, says that’s a ...
#37: Amazon’s Secret Framework for Innovation with Marcelo Calbucci
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if Amazon’s innovation edge came not from big ideas, but from writing them down? In this episode, Jorge sits down with Marcelo Calbucci, former...
#36: Single-Threaded Leadership, Purpose, and Growth with Luis Caballero
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to lead with purpose, without quitting your job? In this episode, Jorge sits down with Luis Caballero, former Amazon leader and cur...
#35: Top 7 Lessons from 33 Episodes of Think Like Amazon
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jorge is officially taking over as the new host of Think Like Amazon. But before diving into fresh conversations, he went back and studied the top epi...
#34: From Amazon to Entrepreneurship - Taking Ownership with Tyler Wallis
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Wallis spent seven years at Amazon, leading teams in Consumer Electronics, Home Improvement, and Marketing for Amazon Canada. In that same time,...
Learn and Be Curious for an Effective Career with Jorge Pando
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jorge Pando spent eight years at Amazon, holding key leadership roles across retail and advertising, most recently as Head of Product for Amazon Adver...
Delivering Results through Transparent Leadership with Ronak Patel
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ronak spent over 9 years at Amazon, where he led large businesses across Fulfillment, Ultra-fast delivery, Real Estate, Process Improvement, and Last ...
How to Dive Deep and ask your team good questions with Jennifer Arthur
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer spent over 16 years at Amazon across various roles that included Financial Analyst, Product Manager, Head of Vendor Management, and Category ...
(Part 2) International Expansion and Are Right, A Lot with Steve Frazier
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this 2-episode special with Steve Frazier, a former 20-year Amazon VP, we pick up in talking about how to use data, focus on inputs, an...
(Part 1) International Expansion and Are Right, A Lot with Steve Frazier
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steve spent over 20 years as a VP at Amazon where he launched multiple businesses and led organizations around the globe. During his Amazon career, St...
Using Mechanisms to scale your business with Umer Sadiq
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Umer spent nearly 12 years at Amazon as a software development leader across a diverse set of businesses including Amazon’s data warehouse, reverse ...
People Leadership and Managing by the Inputs with Mandy Bottorff
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mandy spent over 13 years at Amazon across a number of roles including as leader of product management, marketing, and retail buying teams, running Pr...
How to Earn Trust at work with Justin Maner
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Justin spent 10 years at Amazon where he helped lead Baby Registry to becoming the #1 US registry, reinvented the vendor negotiation process that led ...
Long-term Ownership and Team Building with Chad Goelzer
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chad spent nearly 16 years at Amazon which included roles as Director of Fulfillment by Amazon and Director of Global Sales. Having joined Amazon in 1...
Frugality as a tool for innovation and prioritization with Dave Anderson
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave spent nearly 12 years at Amazon moving from a Development Manager to a Technology Director. In early 2020, Dave took on the role as Head of Techn...
Learn & Be Curious with Melissa Eamer
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa spent 19 years at Amazon, progressing through over ten roles that included Technical Advisor to Jeff Wilke, VP of Sports, Outdoors, and Toys, ...
Think Big and Listening to Customers with Kyle Walker
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle spent over 7 years at Amazon where he launched multiple billion-dollar programs, including Amazon Renewed and Amazon Exclusives – now known as ...
Diving Deep and establishing company culture with Faisal Masud
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Faisal spent over 7 years at Amazon as a Director over the early growth of several businesses including Mobile Electronics, Amazon Warehouse, Amazon B...
Developing Others and Insisting on the Highest Standards with Elizabeth Bennett
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth spent 15 years at Amazon where she grew multiple billion-dollar businesses and held several roles including Director of Lawn & Garden an...
Launching Marketplace and Invent & Simplify with John Rossman
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Rossman joined Amazon in 2002 as Director of Merchant Integration where he led the launch of Amazon’s 3P marketplace business. John also went o...
Applying Amazon’s innovation playbook across diverse businesses with Godwin Pavamani
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Godwin spent 5 years at Amazon as a senior leader of product, retail and program teams. In each role, he led new innovations or launches for Amazon cu...
(Part 2) Developing the Best leaders and Hiring at scale with Dave Anderson
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave spent over 10 years at Amazon where he was a Technology Director prior to being asked to build the technology foundations for Bezos Academy. I...
(Part 1) Developing the Best leaders and Hiring at scale with Dave Anderson
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave spent over 10 years at Amazon where he was a Technology Director prior to being asked to build the technology foundations for Bezos Academy. I...
Working Backwards Q&A with Colin Bryar
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Colin spent 12 years on Amazon’s senior leadership team, including two years as “Chief of Staff” to Jeff Bezos. During this time, Colin had a fr...
Have Backbone; Disagree & Commit with John Olsen
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Olsen spent 7 years at Amazon as VP of Kindle Human Resources and VP of HR for Worldwide Operations. During these years of rapid global expansion...
Creating an Ownership culture with Ethan Evans
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ethan Evans spent over 15 years at Amazon where he held multiple VP roles across Appstore, Twitch, and Amazon Gaming. During this time, Ethan led team...
How Amazon leaders Dive Deep with Allon Katz
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Allon spent nearly 7 years at Amazon, holding senior roles across both Amazon’s e-commerce retail category businesses and as Director of Prime Now. ...
Customer Obsession in action with Kim Mathisen
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kim spent 12 years at Amazon where she managed various retail functions across Books, Grocery, Outdoors, and Tools categories, ultimately serving as d...
Vocally Self-critical leadership with Skyler Ramirez
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Skyler spent 8 years at Amazon in retail and data engineering leadership roles, including forming a team within Amazon Hardlines to identify and drive...
Invent & Simplify at scale with Maju Kuruvilla
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maju spent 8 years as Vice President for Amazon’s global logistics and fulfillment technology organizations. During his Amazon career, the scope of ...
Hire & Develop the Best talent with Nick Dimitrov
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nick spent over 5 years at Amazon where he co-founded Amazon Game Studios and led teams to grow Amazon’s partnerships with game developers. During t...
Having Bias for Action for smart business growth with Andrea Leigh
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea spent 10 years at Amazon where she led over 15 product categories, helped launch Amazon’s automated pricing system, and ran Amazon Prime for ...
Tenets and the Are Right A Lot principle with Dave Glick
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Glick spent 20 years at Amazon as a VP responsible for building much of Amazon’s pricing, warehouse management systems, and fulfillment technol...
Decision making through Document Writing with Stefan Haney
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan Haney is a 15-year Amazon veteran, where he led multiple product, data, and technical teams during formative years of the Amazon marketplace. I...
Implementing separable, single-threaded Ownership with Alejandro Bethlen
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alejandro Bethlen spent 8 years at Amazon, first as a general manager for multiple Amazon US Retail teams and then in key executive and program roles ...
Practical steps to help your team Think Big with Justin Maner
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Maner spent 10 years at Amazon where he was involved in quickly scaling several category teams before leading the turnaround of Amazon’s Baby...
Deliver Results by identifying the right inputs with Eugene Choi
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eugene Choi spent 7 years at Amazon as Finance Director for Retail Softlines and AWS Infrastructure prior to joining the executive teams of Oberto Sna...
Welcome to the Think Like Amazon Podcast!
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the podcast where you'll get special access to learn from Amazon executives as they share how to apply Amazon's best principles a...