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Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:17 David Rosenthal At this rate, they're going to need to call up Andy Jassy and talk about some of those AWS bills.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 10:33 David Rosenthal Another 20 years until handing the reins to somebody else who we're going to spend a lot of time in just a little bit here talking about, of course, current Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy.
- ▶ 36:58 David Rosenthal Jeff is so focused on this and not only Jeff, his new assistant at this time is focused on this, his new technical assistant, his shadow, who is at this point in time, Andy Jassy, who was the first, a lot of listeners maybe don't know…
- ▶ 37:32 David Rosenthal So the reason that Jassy becomes Jeff's first shadow is Jassy, it was a Harvard MBA.
- ▶ 37:57 David Rosenthal And Jassy was gonna get laid off with the whole department, but Jeff liked him.
- ▶ 38:02 David Rosenthal And so Jeff said, I'm gonna save Andy.
- ▶ 38:16 Ben Gilbert And Andy's background is not technical up until this point.
- ▶ 38:32 Ben Gilbert I can't remember which one Andy launched, but he was the launcher for music, music for one of those.
- ▶ 39:05 David Rosenthal Yeah, it was just an excuse to keep Andy in the company and give him a job.
- ▶ 39:09 David Rosenthal But this is now the biggest problem in the company that Jeff is focused on and that Andy's focused on.
- ▶ 41:46 David Rosenthal That is not what Jeff and Andy decides to do.
- ▶ 42:07 David Rosenthal Jeff has been exposed here and Andy too as his TA to this concept of web two dot O this concept of APIs.
- ▶ 46:36 David Rosenthal Steve writes that Jeff and Andy, uh, you know, as part of this sent a memo out to the whole company at Amazon.
- ▶ 57:49 Ben Gilbert Jassy starts working with him on it.
- ▶ 58:28 David Rosenthal Jassy's been working a lot on it as Jeff's TA and Jeff's like, okay, Andy, it's time for you to go back out into the company.
- ▶ 58:47 David Rosenthal They start thinking together like, okay, Andy, what are you going to do?
- ▶ 58:55 David Rosenthal Andy's probably happy.
- ▶ 59:15 David Rosenthal So the legend goes, Andy puts together a six pager.
- ▶ 1:00:08 David Rosenthal Andy talks about he's so nervous going into the meeting.
- ▶ 1:00:32 David Rosenthal Andy, literally we mentioned
- ▶ 1:00:42 David Rosenthal So Andy goes in, takes over AWS.
- ▶ 1:00:50 Ben Gilbert Andy right away took over the publishing of images via the Amazon Associates API, that sort of fledgling AWS.
- ▶ 1:01:33 David Rosenthal So back to Andy, he gets approval.
- ▶ 1:01:50 Ben Gilbert So I watched every single reInvent keynote to prepare for this, which I will tell you that is a lot of IT conference keynote watching, and the most recent one is Adam Slepsky, and it's like 1011 years of Jassy up there on stage, and you…
- ▶ 1:02:34 David Rosenthal Andy does write this doc.
- ▶ 1:03:00 David Rosenthal It's actually a really good interview that Andy does with the Harvard I lab in 2013.
- ▶ 1:03:10 David Rosenthal I think the topic is intrapreneurship at companies, which, uh, my God, the most disgusting word of all time, but Andy in the talk, he's like, well, you know, we had to decide, you know, as part of this vision document and the discussion…
- ▶ 1:04:42 David Rosenthal Andy would later say, this is a great quote, and this is absolutely true.
- ▶ 1:08:51 David Rosenthal Concurrently and separately to everything we just said in story number three, Randy Jassy working on Jeff's TA on this big problem, writing the vision doc, the business plan, all that hiring.
- ▶ 1:10:48 Ben Gilbert Before it got in front of Jeff get merged into Andy's proposal, and it was sort of greenlit as one big thing, or were there actually two different concurrent efforts?
- ▶ 1:13:18 Ben Gilbert Bezos Jassy leadership that even in the official Amazon things that they put out about the development in South Africa, like Chris Pinkham's name is sort of nowhere to be found even in this South Africa specific blog post about the history…
- ▶ 1:13:39 David Rosenthal In Andy Jassy's infamous one star review of the everything store on amazon.com, in one of the several passages where he talks about how Brad had it all wrong, here's a quote from Andy.
- ▶ 1:15:59 Ben Gilbert The other thing that's very clear is Andy Jassy is just a brilliant strategist and
- ▶ 1:23:40 Ben Gilbert There's a famous Andy Jassy refrain that you hear at basically every reInvent where he talks about first there were the enterprise cloud doubters who said, oh, maybe this is good for startups, but it's no good for
- ▶ 1:25:34 David Rosenthal Jassy actually at the first reInvent in 2012 as part of his presentation, he has a great
- ▶ 1:49:57 Ben Gilbert And there's some stat that Andy gives on stage in the keynote in 2016, 17, somewhere in there, where they announced Amazon Snowmobile.
- ▶ 1:56:25 David Rosenthal Andy Jassy was not technically the CEO of Amazon Web Services.
- ▶ 1:56:42 David Rosenthal Jassy becomes CEO of AWS and Jeff Wilkie becomes CEO of everything else.
- ▶ 1:57:33 David Rosenthal Andy Jassy becomes CEO of all of Amazon.
- ▶ 2:30:15 Ben Gilbert And Andy Jassy's comment on stage is he's like, we don't really understand the customer use case yet.
- ▶ 2:39:25 David Rosenthal Maybe this is part of Jeff stepping back and Andy Jassy becoming CEO of the whole company.
- ▶ 2:40:26 David Rosenthal Well, Andy, I think has said on recent earning calls, hey,
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 2:06:31 David Rosenthal The Andy Jassies, the Jason Kylars, the Harrison Millers, the Jeff Blackburns, and then there were the Walmart people.
- ▶ 2:10:48 David Rosenthal Jeff and Amazon start hiring Andy Jassy, Jason Kylar, Victoria Pickett, Harrison Miller, Jeff Blackburn, blah, blah, blah.
- ▶ 2:11:01 David Rosenthal That's what Jassy does.
- ▶ 2:36:25 David Rosenthal And then eventually when Bezos started to step back and Jassy became CEO of AWS and Bezos was CEO of the whole company, Jassy's counterpart and CEO of Amazon retail was Jeff Welke.
- ▶ 4:02:16 David Rosenthal Look at Jassy.
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 30:24 David Rosenthal On AWS, I think the bare narrative on AWS is, yes, it's amazing, high margin business, hats are off to Bezos, to Andy Jassy for building it, um, but its days are numbered.
- ▶ 34:57 David Rosenthal I think Andy Jassy could be the Tim Cook of Amazon.