- Philip Maer says his stay in Amazon He was one of the most impressive careers, partly thanks to the focus of the company on customers over shareholders.
New Vimeo CEO, Philip SieryHe was around the block among the largest technology companies.
While he has recently headed Google Apple Engineering Team, his career has included a 15-year position as a general sales and technology manager in Microsoft and two years in Amazon’s financial services. The last experience was the most “instructive”, – he admits, and he was concentrated around a unique policy against the use of adverbs.
But the reason is more logical than you can think.
“If we would write a press -release press, we were not allowed to use adverbs,” Maier says Wealth. “We had to actually not talk about the features of our products. But instead, the problems we solved for customers, and I would tell you it was really an instrumental reset on the language I had to use.”
Corporate conversation can make the company “lose its way”
Amazon is long known to its Unique Practice GuideFor example, “two pizza rules” that determines the small size of the team, as well as 16 principles such as “prejudice to action” and “disagree and commit”. However, the focus of the company on the cost of the client is the value of the shareholder that most impressed Moyer. He says that inability to focus on the client can become “one of the most dangerous things” for the company.
“When they bring external advisory organizations, they talk in a corporate conversation, or talk in terms of the number and people, I think that then the companies lose their way,” Maer adds.
He brought with him his lessons in the new role of Vimeo Executive Director. While last year, the video exchange platform walked down the journey, Vimeo is now going on the way to double -digit growth by the end of the year, Maer says.
How to get forward in the business world, according to Vimeo CEO
As the company leader now is $ 800 million, Maer has learned a lot of his lessons in a difficult way, and he has tips for future business executives:
“First of all, don’t be disturbing,” Maier says. “They will do strange as long as they do the job.”
It also adds that it is important to remember that despite any perception, no business is created as easily as you can think.
“Every company, every big unicorn AI, any company I have ever worked, has never been successful at night it appears in a press release. This is always a 10-year journey,” he says.
Take OpenaiFor example, one of the fastest growing companies in the world. Artificial intelligence startup has not exploded in popularity until 2023, thanks to it partially Success with chatgpt. However Openai was founded at the end of 2015, and its seams like Sam AltmanProbably worked on the concept of years before.
Maer, who is ready to put in hard work, even if she can go unnoticed, will come forward from the other side, adds the major.
“You can do a lot of work in the dark – a lot of work that people do not see – but while you do the job, you will eventually succeed in what you are working on.”
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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2025-04-06 10:03:00
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