Sriram Krishnan's Memo Collection
Hard to find gems.
From Sriram himself: "I'm fascinated by interesting memos written for an internal audience - a company, a campaign or even for the President. Raw, not smoothened over for PR departments, they help shed light on how people really think inside institutions. These are challenging to find. They typically seem to come into the public domain in one of three ways: through being really old, being part of some lawsuit / legal process or, sadly, being part of a hack. Each of the below are 'interesting' which I define broadly as either the impact they had, the quality of their writing or just helping shed light on how communication works in a different domain."
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Business Memos

  • Stephen Elop's "Burning Platforms"

  • Steve Jobs "Top 100"

  • Steve Jobs negotiating ebook pricing

  • Brad Garlinghouse "Peanut Butter" memo

  • Dave Goldberg to Michael Lynton on the state of the music industry

  • Jason Kilar on Hulu and content

  • Brian Graden on VH1 and MTV

  • Howard Schultz's strategy memo to Starbucks

  • Neil H. McElroy's memo on dedicated brand departments at P&G

  • Completed Staff Work from the Pentagon in WWII; Thomas Watson Jr.

  • Jeffreu Katzenberg on Disney Studios

  • Steve Yegge on Google and Amazon platforms

  • NYTimes innovation report

  • Dave Packard speech to HP

  • Butler Lampson - Xerox

  • Ken Olsen memo on tractors

  • Brian Armstrong of Coinbase with an email to a new PM

  • Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed on "how to save the internet"

  • Hunter Harrison - How we work

  • Ben Horowitz on "Good PMs, Bad PMs"

  • Roelof Botha on his investment thesis for Youtube

  • Thoughts on Flash - Steve Jobs

    • Sports Memos

  • Sam Hinkie's resignation letter

  • David Griffin to the Cavs

    • Political Memos

  • Sorensen to Carl Albert

  • Dupont memo on nuclear weapons after WW2

    • Facebook Memos

  • Zuckerberg on the messenger ecosystem

  • Mark Zuckerberg negotiating with Kevin Systrom over the Instagram acquisition

    • Microsoft Memos

  • Nathan Mhyrvold - Roadkill on the Information Superhighway

  • Ben Slivka's internal memo to MSFT on the web