Best Tyler Wallis Podcasts (2024)

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Delivering Results through Transparent Leadership with Ronak Patel 30:51

2y ago30:51

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Ronak spent over 9 years at Amazon, where he led large businesses across Fulfillment, Ultra-fast delivery, Real Estate, Process Improvement, and Last Mile Delivery. Ronak was also the youngest Regional Director in Amazon history, with placement into Amazon’s highest volume, most critical region of fulfillment. After nearly a decade with the company…

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How to Dive Deep and ask your team good questions with Jennifer Arthur 34:48

2+ y ago34:48

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Jennifer spent over 16 years at Amazon across various roles that included Financial Analyst, Product Manager, Head of Vendor Management, and Category Leader. During this time, Jennifer’s teams helped create new input metrics and ask questions to evolve Amazon’s use of data in the quest for operational excellence. Jennifer has since taken this abili…

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(Part 2) International Expansion and Are Right, A Lot with Steve Frazier 20:12

2+ y ago20:12

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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, and exercise strong judgement in prioritizing your team’s attention in a scaling business. You’ll hear Steve share: · Why businesses should focus on operational performance reviews, even on day 1 · The …

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(Part 1) International Expansion and Are Right, A Lot with Steve Frazier 29:51

2+ y ago29:51

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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, Steve spent time as the country manager for Amazon UK and Amazon China, in addition to roles leading North American Retail expansion and the rollout of international consumer programs. In this first ins…

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Using Mechanisms to scale your business with Umer Sadiq 27:05

2+ y ago27:05

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Umer spent nearly 12 years at Amazon as a software development leader across a diverse set of businesses including Amazon’s data warehouse, reverse logistics, Prime Now program, Amazon Fresh, and Whole Foods Market. Umer left Amazon in early 2018 to co-found Veeve, a contact-less shopping checkout solution, and in early 2021, Umer took on the role …

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People Leadership and Managing by the Inputs with Mandy Bottorff 28:00

2+ y ago28:00

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Mandy spent over 13 years at Amazon across a number of roles including as leader of product management, marketing, and retail buying teams, running Prime Pantry, leading the supply chain function for Amazon Private Label, and leading worldwide employee performance management programs. Since Amazon, Mandy has joined The Bouqs, an innovative e-commer…

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How to Earn Trust at work with Justin Maner 34:59

2+ y ago34:59

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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 to $1B in profitability improvements, and received a "Just Do It" award from Jeff Bezos for inventing a new communication system for vendors and sellers. In 2019, Justin left his role as Director of A…

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Long-term Ownership and Team Building with Chad Goelzer 28:00

2+ y ago28:00

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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 1999, Chad helped build and develop many teams to lead these and other core Amazon businesses. Chad left Amazon in 2015 to build and co-lead The Goelzer Home Team and improve the customer focus and use…

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Frugality as a tool for innovation and prioritization with Dave Anderson 37:50

2+ y ago37:50

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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 Technology for Bezos Academy where he spent over a year building their technology foundation. Since leaving Amazon and Bezos Academy in 2021, Dave has begun publishing regular leadership articles on his ne…

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Learn & Be Curious with Melissa Eamer 29:35

2+ y ago29:35

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Melissa spent 19 years at Amazon, progressing through over ten roles that included Technical Advisor to Jeff Wilke, VP of Sports, Outdoors, and Toys, and VP of Sales and Marketing for Amazon Devices. After leaving Amazon, Melissa spent a year as COO of Glossier and recently launched a venture-backed startup, Modern Age, to help people live longer, …

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Think Big and Listening to Customers with Kyle Walker 43:35

2+ y ago43:35

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Kyle spent over 7 years at Amazon where he launched multiple billion-dollar programs, including Amazon Renewed and Amazon Exclusives – now known as Amazon Launchpad. Since leaving Amazon in 2020, Kyle has co-founded two companies, The Lab Consult, which helps e-commerce brands implement systems to scale profitably online, and Foundry Brands, an FBA…

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Diving Deep and establishing company culture with Faisal Masud 41:12

2+ y ago41:12

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Faisal spent over 7 years at Amazon as a Director over the early growth of several businesses including Mobile Electronics, Amazon Warehouse, Amazon BuyBack, Amazon TradeIn, and Amazon Basics. Building these programs helped Faisal hone his ability to Dive Deep into business processes and health. Since leaving Amazon in 2011, Faisal held a number of…

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Developing Others and Insisting on the Highest Standards with Elizabeth Bennett 34:12

3y ago34:12

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Elizabeth spent 15 years at Amazon where she grew multiple billion-dollar businesses and held several roles including Director of Lawn & Garden and Director and General Manager of Business & Technology for Selling Partner Success prior to joining Kraft Heinz as VP of Global eCommerce. In our conversation, Elizabeth shares the people-leadership prac…

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Launching Marketplace and Invent & Simplify with John Rossman 37:42

3y ago37:42

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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 on to lead the e-commerce solutions business for enterprise clients such as Target.com and Toys R Us before leaving in late 2005 to advise many companies on innovation and digital strategy and write thre…

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How Your Relationships are the Biggest Predictor of Happiness in Life, Creating an App as a Non-Technical Founder, and How to Understand your Customers, with Ali Maggioncalda, Founder/CEO of Lovewick 1:01:01

3y ago1:01:01

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Let Us Know What you Thought of the Episode! Amazing | Good | Meh | Bad Today we sit down with Ali Maggioncalda, the CEO and founder of Lovewick. Lovewick is an app centered on creating deeper relationships for couples. Ali started off her exploration of love and relationships at Stanford doing extensive research on the psychology of healthy relati…

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Applying Amazon’s innovation playbook across diverse businesses with Godwin Pavamani 29:21

3y ago29:21

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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 customers. Post Amazon, Godwin spent two years leading a business turnaround and is currently the co-founder at a real-estate tech startup where he continues to leverage the innovation processes he prac…

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(Part 2) Developing the Best leaders and Hiring at scale with Dave Anderson 14:19

3y ago14:19

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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. In Part 2 of our conversation, Dave shares his experience as a bar raiser and member of Amazon’s Bar Raiser Core team, a committee tasked with directing how Amazon’s bar raiser hiring program would operat…

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Jackson Square Ventures Partner Victor Echevarria on Why the Best Founders are Incredibly Humble; Why SPACs are Overhyped, and Why the First $100B Healthtech Company is Closer Than You Might Think. 46:20

3y ago46:20

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Today's special guest is Victor Echevarria! Victor is a Partner at Jackson Square Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses. A founder turned investor, his investments include 1upHealth, WELL Health, and Trust & Will. Prior to joining JSV in 2018, Victor founded Remedy Labs, a healthcare fintech company focus…

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(Part 1) Developing the Best leaders and Hiring at scale with Dave Anderson 26:28

3y ago26:28

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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. In Part 1 of our conversation, Dave shares his experience and advice on how to develop leaders and accelerate their learning and career development. During his years at Amazon, Dave coached, mentored, and…

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Working Backwards Q&A with Colin Bryar 38:44

3y ago38:44

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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 front-row seat to the development and implementation of Amazon’s core operating principles and mechanisms, such as written memos, single-threaded teams, and the bar raiser program. In early 2021, Colin, along…

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The Importance of Building Community to Promote Healthy Behaviors with co-founders of MindthruBody Elsa Jimenez and Arelys 48:42

3y ago48:42

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Elsa and Arelys are the co-founders of MindThruBody, an online community focused on empowering Latinx women to pursue physical activity through the power of community and sharing experiences. Topics we talk about today: What made you want to start this organization? Why use Instagram as your main channel for distributing content? What's it like wor…

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Have Backbone; Disagree & Commit with John Olsen 34:48

3y ago34:48

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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 for Amazon, John had to rely on proven principles and models to help ensure teams were making strong decisions, avoiding bias, and committed behind key goals. Since leaving Amazon in 2019, John has h…

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Creating an Ownership culture with Ethan Evans 35:30

3y ago35:30

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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 teams of over 800 people, launched Prime Video and Twitch Prime programs, and has been issued more than 60 patents. During Ethan’s time at Amazon, he helped craft part of the Ownership leadership principl…

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Next Generation Dental Care Using AI, with Dr. Wardah Inam, CEO & Co-founder of Overjet 52:55

3y ago52:55

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Dr. Wardah Inam is the CEO and co-founder of Overjet. Overjet is a software company that develops a platform designed to reduce costs and improve the quality of dental care. It uses artificial intelligence and analyzes dental data to determine what treatments are necessary for the patient, enabling patients to get improved dental care. She has been…

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How Amazon leaders Dive Deep with Allon Katz 28:03

3y ago28:03

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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. During these roles, Allon refined his ability to dive deep into a business and understand its critical levers, a skill he first acquired as a management consultant and now applies post-Amazon as he lead…

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Customer Obsession in action with Kim Mathisen 36:25

3y ago36:25

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Kim spent 12 years at Amazon where she managed various retail functions across Books, Grocery, Outdoors, and Tools categories, ultimately serving as director and category leader over a multi-billion-dollar business. Over the years, Kim relied on a customer-first approach to quickly navigate new role transitions and grow successful category business…

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Why Dental Care Needs to be Better and How Wally Health is Reinventing The Dental Care Experience, with Tyler Burnett, CEO and Co-Founder Of Wally Health 57:20

3y ago57:20

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Wally Health is the one-stop shop for oral care. Wally is reinventing the end-to-end dental care experience with personalized, accessible, and affordable dental products delivered to your front door. Consider Wally Health the Hims & Hers of dental care. Tyler is a mission-driven entrepreneur who previously co-founded Western Canada's largest privat…

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Building a First Class Sales Organization and Truly Understand Your Customer’s Needs with Ryan Hungate DDS, CEO and Co-founder of Simpleye 52:22

3y ago52:22

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Today we sit down with Ryan Hungate, CEO of Simplifeye. Simplifeye is building an all-in-one suite of products to help dental offices manage their patients. Simplifeye provides an out-of-the-box solution that offers Live Chat, Payments, Scheduling, and connected telehealth to customers. Ryan provides some fantastic insights on sales, defining your …

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Vocally Self-critical leadership with Skyler Ramirez 31:08

3y ago31:08

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Skyler spent 8 years at Amazon in retail and data engineering leadership roles, including forming a team within Amazon Hardlines to identify and drive process improvements at scale to deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings. Key to succeeding in these nascent and disruptive projects were the lessons Skyler learned that helped his te…

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Invent & Simplify at scale with Maju Kuruvilla 35:15

3y ago35:15

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Maju spent 8 years as Vice President for Amazon’s global logistics and fulfillment technology organizations. During his Amazon career, the scope of Maju’s role grew to oversee thousands of engineering, operations, and business employees across the globe. Earlier this year, Maju made the transition from Amazon to become CTO at Bolt, a startup that o…

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Hire & Develop the Best talent with Nick Dimitrov 35:08

3y ago35:08

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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 this time, Nick also became an Amazon Bar Raiser, interviewing over 350 Amazon candidates and mentoring multiple bar raisers in training before leaving Amazon to educate job candidates and enterprise cli…

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Using Software as a Drug: An Introduction to All Things Digital Therapeutics (DTx), with Danny Kim, Head of Corporate Development @ WELT 52:19

3y ago52:19

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Today, we have part two of our interview with Danny Kim, the Head of Corporate Development at WELT! WELT was founded in 2016 as a spin-off of Samsung to explore the intersection of healthcare and technology. WELT creates personalized digital therapeutics that combine sensor and digital biomarker technologies with therapeutic contents for the treatm…

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Having Bias for Action for smart business growth with Andrea Leigh 30:39

3y ago30:39

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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 Amazon Canada. During this time, Andrea made and oversaw many decisions where speed was critical to grow nascent programs and delight customers. Since leaving Amazon in 2015, Andrea has consulted hundre…

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The Importance of Being an Operator & Patient-Centric Design: A Pill-Pack Case Study with Danny Kim, Head of Corp Dev @ WELT 14:47

3y ago14:47

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Today, we have part one of our interview with Danny Kim, the Head of Corporate Development at WELT. WELT was founded in 2016 as a spin-off of Samsung to explore the intersection of healthcare and technology. WELT creates personalized digital therapeutics that combine sensor and digital biomarker technologies with therapeutic contents for the treatm…

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Tenets and the Are Right A Lot principle with Dave Glick 26:05

3y ago26:05

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Dave Glick spent 20 years at Amazon as a VP responsible for building much of Amazon’s pricing, warehouse management systems, and fulfillment technology. As an early executive at Amazon, Dave played a major role in Amazon’s adoption of tenets and in how the Are Right, A Lot principle is practices at the company. In this episode, Dave shares the stor…

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Digital Health News: The Prince and the Digital Health Startup, plus Digital Health's $7.1 Billion Fundraising Glow-Up. 24:53

3y ago24:53

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New podcast format alert! Iman and I are trying something new this week. In this episode, we will be discussing some of the most recent and interesting news in the digital health space!In today's episode, we talk about:- Prince Harry's new job as an Executive at a Digital Health Company- The $7.1 Billion that digital health companies raised in Q1 2…

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Decision making through Document Writing with Stefan Haney 31:35

3y ago31:35

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Stefan Haney is a 15-year Amazon veteran, where he led multiple product, data, and technical teams during formative years of the Amazon marketplace. In addition to participating in countless narrative document reviews with Amazon’s senior leadership team, Stefan brings experience as a former instructor of Amazon’s internal writing class. In this ep…

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“With Great Personal Data, Comes Great Responsibility": Managing Your Personal Data in a World with Vaccine Passports, with David Lucatch, CEO of Liquid Avatar Technologies 34:40

3y ago34:40

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David Lucatch is the CEO, President & Chair of the Corporation at Liquid Avatar Technologies. He has spent over 35 years as a serial entrepreneur in the international marketing arena and over 25 years of that developing technologies and taking them to market. Today, David’s focus is set squarely on Liquid Avatar (formerly The KABN Network), as its …

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Implementing separable, single-threaded Ownership with Alejandro Bethlen 28:39

3y ago28:39

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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 in Amazon EU. In our interview, Alejandro expounds on Amazon’s approach to separable, single-threaded leadership and shares examples of how it sped up decision making for organizations. Alejandro pull…

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Practical steps to help your team Think Big with Justin Maner 33:41

3y ago33:41

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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 Registry and managing innovation-centered teams as a director for Amazon Devices. In this interview, Justin dives into the Think Big principle and illustrates how he applied it to accelerate building f…

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Burnout, Leadership, and Creating Positive & Productive Work Cultures with Hamza Khan, Managing Director of Student Life Network 1:10:54

3y ago1:10:54

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Today’s episode is on Hamza Khan is a multi-award-winning marketer & entrepreneur. He’s the Managing Director of Student Life Network, Canada’s most comprehensive resource hub dedicated to helping and empowering millions of students across the country. He co-founded both Splash Effect, a boutique marketing & creative agency, as well as SkillsCamp, …

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Deliver Results by identifying the right inputs with Eugene Choi 26:21

3y ago26:21

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Eugene Choi spent 7 years at Amazon as Finance Director for Retail Softlines and AWS Infrastructure prior to joining the executive teams of Oberto Snacks and Viacom CBS. In this episode, Eugene breaks down how he learned Amazon's input-focused process to uncover business opportunities and deliver results. Eugene shares how leaders can help both fre…

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Welcome to the Think Like Amazon Podcast! 18:22

3y ago18:22

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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 and processes to grow your own business. Listen as Amazon's strategies, frameworks, and mechanisms are broken down through the personal experiences of senior Amazon leaders so that they can be replicated and app…

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The Product Manager Mindset to Health, E-commerce, and Entrepreneurship in Dubai, with Tony Pagliocco, Fmr. CPO of Hello Chef 42:24

3y ago42:24

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Today’s special guest is Tony Pagliocco, the Former Head of Product for Hello Chef. Tony formally served as a Product Manager for Wizards of the Coast and as Head of Product for the Analytics division at Boeing. Hello Chef is a Dubai-based meal-kit service, delivering chef-curated recipes and pre-portioned, fresh ingredients to thousands of custome…

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The 16 Billion Dollar Market in Healthcare that is Often Overlooked, How AI is Fundamentally Changing the World of Medical Coding, with Andrew Lockhart, CEO & Co-Founder of Fathom Health 45:38

3y ago45:38

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Today, we spoke to Andrew Lockheart, CEO of Fathom Health, about the world of medical coding. Medical coding is the process of assigning standardized codes that tell health insurers what services they used and how that service should be reimbursed. Fathom Health is focused on using AI to reduce the amount of time and errors made while assigning cod…

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How to Build a Top-Rated Digital Health Companion and the Future of Medication Management, with Omri Shor, CEO of Medisafe 39:13

3y ago39:13

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Today’s interview is with Omri Shor, the Chief Executive Officer of Medisafe, a digital health application that has over 49K top ratings on the App Store. Medisafe is an evidence-based digital therapeutics company providing medication management solutions for patients. Medisafe uses their application solution to help patients manage their medicatio…

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Innovation in Orthopedic Care, with Ben Schwartz, CIO of Healent 28:44

3y ago28:44

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Today’s interview is with Ben Schwartz, the Chief Innovation Officer of Healent and a LinkedIn 2020 Top Voice. Healent is a remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform that is dedicated to supporting patients with Musculoskeletal issues (think bone, muscles, joint pain, arthritis, orthopedic surgery, etc.). Healent uses technology to help patients mon…

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Telehealth for Pets and Connected Pet Care with Bobby Reddy, COO and Co-Founder of Anipanion 39:49

3y ago39:49

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Today we sit down with Bobby Reddy, COO, and co-founder of Anipanion, a telehealth product for pets! Bobby has been an entrepreneur since his time in college where he and his roommate (later co-founder) were intrigued by the combination of connected health systems and the pet care space, later leading into Anipanion. Bobby highlights the issues aff…

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The Future of Orthopedic Surgery, with Scott Day, CCO of Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics 50:40

3+ y ago50:40

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Today, we spoke to Scott Day, CCO of GramercyOrtho (also known as GEO), about the challenges behind supplying and managing orthopedic surgical equipment. Prior to joining GEO, Scott was the Head of Sales at Black Forest Medical Group and a VP at Orthofix. GEO’s flagship product is a mobile implant and instrumentation inventory system that uses RFID…

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The Digital Disruption in Health with Justin Norden, VC Investor and Partner at GSR Ventures 47:32

3+ y ago47:32

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In this episode, we sit down with Justin Norden, a Partner at GSR Ventures. GSR Ventures is one of the world’s most successful early-stage venture firms, with over $3B under management and with investments in Kinsa, Deep 6 AI, DataVisor, Plus AI, and Didi (the Uber of China), just to name a few. Prior to joining GSR Ventures, Justin worked on Apple…

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