650 million during the second, 1998 the second year they were public. >> host: your co-author is bill carrmr. carr, tell us about your experience trinket good morning. i joined amazon in july 1999, and i join as as a product mr on what would've been the video store here in those days it was dvd. in the years that followed i ended up taking on her role as the director of buying and merchandising for music and video and ultimately the director of buying and merchandising for book, music and video, all the physical retail business which at that time was amazon's largest business globally. in 2004 i was promoted was promoted to vice president and became one of the founding leaders of the digital media organization of amazon. i went on over the next decade to found and lead amazon music, prime video and amazon studios. >> host: what were you doing prior to joining amazon? >> guest: well, i was in business school in the mid-'90s and after business school i spent three years working for procter & gamble and then i went to a startup software company outside of boston. and then joined amazon in 99.

. >> host: your co-author is bill carr, mr. carr, tell us about your experience. >> guest: good morning britt i joined amazon in july 1999 and i joined as a product manager on what would've been the video store and in those days that meant vhs and a new format called dvd and in the years that followed i ended up taking on a roll of the director buying a merchandise and the music and video and then ultimately the director of buying and merchandising for music and video all of being a physical retail business which at that time was amazon largest business and then in 2004 i was made vice president and became a leader of the digital meter organization at amazon and went on over the next decade to found and leave amazon music and prime video. >> host: or were you praying to doing before you joined amazon? >> guest: i was in business school in the mid- 90s and after business school i spent three years working for procter & gamble and then i went to a startup software company outside of boston and then joined amazon in 99. >> host: m

to working backwards llc co-founder bill carr joins us now. great to see you. going to be like with its, you know, founder and chief executive for so long, he created this beast internally and in the public eye, where do you think amazon goes now? >> well, i think that, in fact, there'll be substantial continuity for several reasons. one is that jeff has been mindful really going all the way back to early 2000s about how to build a company that would endure for decades. and he went about -- everyone knows about all the amazing products and services that amazon has built, but jeff has been just as deliberate in building a set of processes, systems, culture, management team that would entour for decades. endure for decades. so that combined with the fact that jeff as actually been quite involved with spending moses of his day-to-day -- most of his day-to-day time focused on the new initiatives that the company drives, everything from amazon prime video to new devices, to aws for many, many years that i think -- and, by the way, it's not going away. he's going to

before your co-authors bill carr. mr. cartels about your experience. >> good morning. i joined amazon in july of 1999. i joined as a product manager on what would have been the video store and at that point video storment vhs in a new format called dvd. and it merchandising about music and video and also the director of buying and merchandising for both music and video being the physical retail business which at that time was amazon's largest business globally. in 2004 it's promoted to vice president became one of the founding leaders of the digital media organization at amazon for it i would not of the next decade to found and laid amazon music, prime video and amazon studios. >> what were you doing prior to joining amazon? >> i was in business school in the mid- 90s. after business school i spent three years working for procter & gamble bird that i actually went to a startup software company outside of boston and then join amazon and 99. >> mr. bryar, why seattle? why did amazon start in seattle? >> jeff started in seattle for couple of reasons. and he did not actual

. >> this week on the communicators, we want to introduce you to collin briar and bill carr. they are the co-authors of "working backwards, inside stories and secrets from inside amazon. mr. briar, we will start with you what was your position at , amazon and tell us a little bit about that experience. collin: i worked at amazon for a little over 12 years and i started in march of 1998. i did a few rolls and then in starting in 2003, i spent two years working as chief of staff, internally they call that role jeff's shadow, spending 10 hours a day with jeff, helping him be a better ceo, and learning how he wanted to scale the company and so i spent two years doing that and then i spent five years after that as the cheap operating -- chief operating officer of imdb a subsidiary of , amazon. >> and when you joined amazon, what were the revenues and what were you buying from amazon? >> i joined in march and the annual report in 1997 with the first year that amazon had gone public, amazon did $147 million in revenue in 1997, so we had just gone -- $150 million if you want to call

sue went in their book working backwards, colin briar and bill carr writes to work at amazon have to work long, hard, smart, but not two out of three of those. gentlemen, thank you for joining us on the communicator. >> thank you so much for having us. ♪ ♪ >> you're watching tv on c-span2. every weekend with the latest nonfiction books and authors spread book tv on c-span2, created by america's take cable television company today brought to by these television companies who provide book tv to viewers as a public service. >> hi everyone welcome and good evening. my name is lauren r's on behalf of harvard book score the harvard university of science and library honored to introduce this virtual event with elizabeth kolbert, under the white sky and conversation with amy brady. or hanging in there, thank you so much for joining us virtually tonight. her event is the latest installment recently literature and beyond. the other comer events this is you can visit harvard.com sign up for a newsletter or harvard.com back/side support info. we also have a youtuber you can see talks. this eveni

. >> host: and in their book "working backwards" colin bryar and bill carr right that to work at amazon yet to work long, hard and smart but not two out of three of those. thank you for joining us on "the communicators." >> guest: thanks for having us. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. and you begin with the latest nonfiction books and authors. booktv on c-span2 created by america's cable-television companies. today we are brought to you by these television companies who provide booktv to viewers as a public service. >> good afternoon and thank you so much for joining us for this author talk. it is just one part at the atlanta history center is virtual martin luther king, jr. day annual virtual author. although this year there's a wealth of material and educational resources on dr. king available online due to the pandemic. i am virginia prescott come thrilled to be hosting this conversation with charles black and the reverend doctor otis moss, friends and colleagues of dr. king, and paul kendrick and the reverend stephen kendrick, here with us to talk about a little-known but extr

role of executive chairman in the third quarter, aws chief andy jassy will become ceo joining us, bill carrive at amazon. also author of a book about amazon, working backwards. it comes out next week how surprised are you by this change >> it is pretty big news quite the end of an era for a man who will certainly go down in history as one of the greatest business leaders of the 20th if not the 21st century. >> what was your position there? how well do you know andy jassy? >> i know andy well. i joined the company back in 1999 and i became the vice president of digital media in 2004 so my role was one of the founding leader of what is today known as amazon music, prime video, and amazon studio so i launched and ran those businesses for a decade on a worldwide basis. during that decade i worked closely, day in and day out with jeff bezos to help formulate the vision and the details of those big businesses . >> so bill, talk us through if this is a blow to the company or a step up given that you will have jassy in this role but still have bezos as executive chairman >> well, it's -- i think yo

bill richardson of the office of general counsel. we will now freed a vote on the item. commissioner carr? >> of proof. chair: the chair votes aye. would any of my colleagues like to make any announcements at this time? go ahead, commissioner starks. >> thank you, madame chairwoman. a new year, a new semester, which means new interns in my office. proud to announce first and foremost, proud to announce artay. artay barns, our first diversity initiative intern. i'm deeply proud to announce that. it is a program that the former chair announced last fall with a goal of creating a more diverse commission. so welcome. i also have lexi cafasso who was a intern with the public safety bureau. she joins us from catholic law school, and katie mellinger, and in turn from wake forest university. and lastly, joining us from the west coast is jeff boxer from ucla. in addition to the telecom work, he has been doing some subtraction to figure out what time he is supposed to coordinate with folks across the country so thank you all for your hard work and continued efforts in my office. thank you. chair: anyone else with an announcement? well, if

reparations some missouri representative carr bush saying the country has disenfranchised american african american families and reparations can help she says the bill does not have any republican support. california congressman tom mcclintock says it would be unfair to punish white americans today for their ancestors mistakes. >>when white so just came back from fighting abroad, they were given housing preferences in education subsidies. my grandfather's ulysses in clifton blakeney were deny those benefits i can't imagine a more did mr. >>the rising or unjust measure. >>house lawmakers have re introduced a bill to study the effects of slavery to develop solutions to what they say is the economic educational health disparities between descendants of slaves and white americans. the white house press secretary today said that president biden supports the commission idea but stopped short of backing the bill. >>members of congress from both parties are now forming a new 9.11 style commission to investigate the january 6 capitol riot. house speaker nancy pelosi says the commission will investigate the causes of the answer right of center action that too

carr and the enlisted men as well as the officers were all decided and the cry went up here. here's buffalo bill and hurrah, hurrah, everyone went and add cody greeted old friends from the cavalry camp there must have been a mixture of deja vu and nostalgia. bill cody known so well by so much of the old veterans of the fifth had5#xj now become buffal bill.c@ shows since departing the fifth in 1872 he became one of the most celebrated actors in america, but, of course, he was only playing a single character, himself, and now he returned to his past life adventure and the ones he so cleverly exaggerated in front of the foot lights. within a few days both lives and both buffalo bills, the daring scout and the celebrated actor would give their greatest performance on a ghastly frontier stage in which western myth and western reality would morph perfectly into each other. what's real. what's not it's hard to tell. >> what he wrote was what he saw him, very little change since i saw him in 1869 except that he looks a little worn, probably caused by his vocation in the east not agreeing with him. all t

bill making. from the public safety and homeland skurp security bureau. becky tangrin from the wireless telecommunications bureau, and we will proceed to a vote on the item. commissioner carr? >> approve. >> commissioner starks? >> approve. >> commissioner signington. >> approve. the chair votes aye. ma da secretary, please announce the next item on the agenda. >> the fifth and final item today is implementing the secure communications network act will be presented by the wireline protection bureau and chris montief will give the production. >> thank you, please proceed. >> good morning again to you and to commissioners, to the commissioners. the wire line competition bureau is please to present for your consideration a third further notice of proposed rule making as part of the on going pligs. they are incorporating changing recently enacted by congress in the consolidated appropriations act. i would like to thank the entire bureau team for their hard work on this item. brian cruickshank, an advisor in the competition policy division will now present the item. brian? >> thank you, the reliability and integrity of our communications network has never been more important to