Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about Jeff Bezos’ leadership style at Amazon.com and to some extent, how involved he likes to get on certain projects. But how the Amazon founder influences The Washington Post is much more of a mystery.
However, Joey Marburger, director of digital products and design at The Post, went on a tweetstorm on Tuesday that shed some light on how Bezos was involved with the creation of the Post’s Kindle Fire app.
Bezos has made a few executive decisions since buying The Post for $250 million in October 2013, including cuts to retirement benefits and bringing on Politico co-founder Fred Ryan as a publisher.
But creating an app for consumers is certainly different. The app itself, made exclusively for the Kindle Fire, was the first partnership between Amazon and the Washington Post since Bezos bought the paper, and it’s notable as an example of Bezos blending his otherwise separate worlds — bridging the company he runs with one of his personal investments.
The app was developed by the Washington Post after Bezos introduced the Fire tablet and Post teams, according to an Amazon spokeswoman, who noted in November that Bezos “regularly interacts with the teams and makes himself available any time he is requested.”
Check out Marburger’s tweets below. Hat tip to Nieman Lab.
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