In his 2017 letter to shareholders, Bezos said by 'tradition at Amazon, authors' names never appear on the memos.

He explained that PowerPoint slides often have 'obscure information.' Bezos prefers memos, he says, because each have 'verbs and sentences and topic sentences and complete paragraphs.' 'A junior executive comes in, they put a huge amount of effort into developing a PowerPoint presentation, they put the third slide up, and the most senior executive in the room has already interrupted them, thrown them off their game, asking questions about what is going to be presented in slide six, if they would just stay quiet for a moment.' 'This practice makes time for everyone to get on same page, allows us to work from many locations, and gets to truth/critical thinking faster.'Īs for Amazon, before the memo-based meetings were instituted, 'we were doing the more traditional thing,' Bezos said. 'Most of my meetings are now Google doc-based, starting with 10 minutes of reading and commenting directly in the doc,' Dorsey tweeted in 2018.

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