How We Built It | Kim Rachmeler

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In our first ever episode, Dave speaks with Kim Rachmeler, former VP Worldwide Discovery and member of the S-Team at Amazon.com, Inc. She’s a skilled engineer and web developer whose efforts helped build and develop Amazon literally from the ground up. She shares the challenges of working with a small team of engineers when tech engineers were scarce and some of the iconic steps the company has taken to cope with consistent monthly growth.

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What to Listen For:

00:00 Intro
02:16 How Kim started at Amazon
04:50 What three things do you need to want something?
07:14 Working as a Technical Project Manager for the first time
09:41 Figuring out different process and running experiments
13:39 On the 3rd version release of the Amazon website
15:40 It started with more or less 35 people doing everything
17:20 A 30% monthly growth had created several technical issues
20:31 Preventing downtime while website maintenance is ongoing
23:13 Adding categories and other big changes
26:15 Engineers are difficult to hire back in the day
28:56 It was mainly an engineering problem for a long while
29:53 From being an engineer to becoming a TPM
34:20 Nightly builds prompted people to pay more attention
37:16 The service-oriented architecture
40:24 Just Do It Award: how it came to be
41:44 “Bias for Action” as a core value
45:24 Overworking resulted in success, but it’s unhealthy
47:59 Tips for young entrepreneurs