Amazonian Culture, Having Relentless Conviction, the Future of Commerce and Work is Life Mentality with fabric CEO Faisal Masud
In today's episode Kelley and Chad are joined by Faisal Masud, CEO of fabric (Series C, $290M invested capital)-a headless and modular software sales company built by eCommerce pioneers. Faisal is a Pakistani immigrant who bootstrapped his way to the top of the U.S. tech world, spending multiple years in the industry at Google (COO), Amazon (Director), Staples (CTO), eBay and Groupon (VP). n this episode we discuss how to become successful in the tech space and what makes an innovative product, why culture matters so much when building and growing an organization, and the future of eCommerce aka how we'll all be shopping in the future. We also touch on the mysterious Amazonian culture and the early days of building the "Everything Store", some not so ordinary advice around fundraising and how for him there is no balance, instead work IS life.