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Andy Jassy

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  1. “Sure, I was working for Jeff in this chief of staff role, and we had this idea to explore a business where we built infrastructure technology services that together comprised a place.”

    2019-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “I think that there are a few reasons. I think, first of all, there are so many people who have been there 20, 21 years, 22 years at this point that right, wrong are indifferent. They almost feel like quasi-founders. You know, there's that type of passion and ownership. And I think that we all believe that we have the chance to do something really unusual in business. And some companies are lucky enough to build an amazing customer experience in one market segment or business segment. Some do too. It's rare that you do three like Amazon has done. And so I think we just feel like our work is not done. We have a great chance to build a lasting company that lasts all of us. And it's fun and interesting. Get to be builders”

    2019-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Jeff, in the earlier days, he was involved in virtually everything the company did, every decision the company made. As a books only and then as a retail, Only company that was easier to do, but anybody who's had a chance to build a larger business with many more people and many more market segments realizes that you can't be involved in every meeting and every decision as the company grows. And there are some leaders and managers who can make that adjustment because you have to build different mechanisms to still be able to see what's happening in the business without having to be in every meeting. And some don't make that transition. And he was really capable of finding a great leadership team, being clear with them about what the objectives were, and then let them go around the business.”

    2019-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “There's so many, Jeff is so unusual and so talented, and there's so many things that are impressive about the guy. He's unbelievably inventive. He's a really big thinker. I mean, teams bring ideas to him and they seem big. And then Jeff looks around another corner and makes it bigger. He has unbelievably high standards. I worked for 18 months as we then call his shadow. It's really like a chief of staff role. And I thought I had pretty high standards before I started that job. Once I did the job, I realized my standards weren't high enough. But probably the thing that's most impressive about Jeff is he's an unbelievable learner. The way that he has evolved as a leader and as a manager and in the array and scope of what he works on over the last 15 to 20 years is very unusual.”

    2019-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “I love the people first and foremost I was really taken by the people I met they were really smart really ambitious incredibly mission passionate everybody you met at the company was so focused on customers everything they did started with the customer and all the strategies and tactics moved backwards from there and I believe that we had the chance to build a very unusual business not just in books but in other product categories as well and I wanted to be part of it”

    2019-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “All my experience leading up to Amazon was consumer-based, and I wanted a consumer company, and I wanted a place that was very entrepreneurial, and I wanted a place where I was able to help start a business, there was no ceiling to what we could pursue. And my then fianc ⁇ now wife is from Los Angeles, and we lived on the East Coast for five years together prior to that point. And the agreement was to come out west for two to three years and then go back to New York. In fact, we wrote that agreement on a napkin and a bar when we made the decision to come out to Seattle, but that was 22 years ago. Understanding is the statute limitations on that napkin has expired.”

    2019-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “I took my last final exam at graduate school the first Friday of May of 1997. I started at Amazon the next Monday and I didn't know what my job was going to be, what my title was going to be, what group I was going to work in, but it was very important to them that I show up that Monday I started off working in marketing. We just split up all the areas of marketing back then. They were all too big for each of us. What I started off doing is running customer retention and competitive intelligence.”

    2019-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “What we have recommended to the government is that they put a constraint in place when law enforcement agencies are going to use facial recognition that they only use results that have at least a 99% confidence parameter and then only as one element of a human-driven decision like one piece of evidence. And then at the end of the day, like anything else, whether it's private sector companies or our police forces, you have to be accountable for your actions. You have to be held responsible if you misuse it.”

    2019-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Hi, I'm Kara Swisher, editor at large of Recode. You may know me as a person trying to fool facial recognition system. With increasingly silly sunglasses, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today we're going to play an interview from this year's Code Conference. I talked to Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, who has been at the company for 22 years. We talked about how Jeff Bezos has changed in that time, whether AWS should be spun off as an independent company, and why Jassy says the government should regulate but not ban facial recognition tech.”

    2019-06-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT