Always Day One
A new book about how the tech giants build products
Always Day One launched on April 14, 2020 with 83 votes, #658 of 5,003 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
What it does
Always Day One is a new book exploring how the tech titans invent. The book features 130+ interviews with insiders from Mark Zuckerberg to hourly workers, offering an unprecedented look into Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft's inner workings.
Award winning journalist Alex Kantrowitz reveals the inner workings of the world’s most powerful companies. Preorder today to get your copy upon release.
"The Tech Giants are far from perfect, but Always Day One reveals the inventive elements of their culture that entrepreneurs can and should learn from." — Mark Cuban, Serial entrepreneur, investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. At Amazon, "Day One" is code for inventing like a startup, with little regard for legacy. Day Two, in Jeff Bezos's own words, is "stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death." Amazon and fellow tech titans Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have stayed on top by operating in Day One: Instead of hunkering down and protecting core advantages, they reinvent constantly. Living in Day One keeps them ahead of smaller,…from alexkantrowitz.com
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