Read the memo the new Goldman tech chief sent to the firm's 9,000-plus engineers where he urges them to ditch presentations in favor of Amazon's famous narratives

• Goldman Sachs' new co-chief information officer, Marco Argenti, joined the bank Oct. 21 after more than six years as a senior exec in Amazon's cloud business.
• Just weeks after joining Goldman, Argenti sent a memo to the firm's 9,000-plus engineers introducing one of Amazon's most famous cultural quirks - the preference for narrative memos over PowerPoint presentations.
• Read the memo in full below.
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Marco Argenti, Goldman Sachs' new chief information officer, officially joined the bank last month. Argenti, who spent six years at Amazon before joining Goldman, didn't waste time bringing one of the more famous quirks of the Seattle based-retail giant's corporate culture.

Earlier this week, Argenti sent a memo to Goldman's 9,000-plus engineers laying out his preference for narrative memos over PowerPoint presentations. The practice is one he borrowed from Amazon, where founder Jeff Bezos famously banned presentations among his senior team in 2004. Business Insider got ahold of Argenti's memo. Here it is in full: