Andy Jassy

“So you have, like, on the calls, you have both Andy Jassy and Cyanadella are out there saying, look, we're just building data centers. Like, these are the shells. We might not use them now. Maybe we'll use them in the future. And we only buy GPUs when we know …”

“Then the information reported that Andy Jassy at Amazon had raised concerns with the senior administration officials about jailbreaking. The risk of jailbreaking fable and getting access to all of Anthropic.”

“And in fact, Andy Jassy at Amazon, everyone on the C staff used to be someone who'd been the tech assistant to Bezos.”

“In fact, I believe every C staff member at Amazon was at one point Jeff Bezos' tech assistant, And Andy Jassy was, and the CEO.”

“There's no version of the world where AWS could have been a PLG cell. It needed to, it really needed that enterprise motion where Theresa and Jassy and Garmin and the team at the top came in and sat down with these government officials And pitch them on the vi…”

“I think they're going to figure it out, but they are stalled right now, and people don't like the stock at all.”

“I think he's talking to headquarters employees here, but I think it's still a better chance that you'll get like robots with better dexterity that replace people in the fulfillment centers versus reducing workforce.”

“Yeah, I think it's across across Amazon. So it wasn't specific to the rest of Amazon. It was definitely inside of AWS too.”

“I think he probably doesn't know what to do with Whole Foods. Like, what are we doing this for?”

“One was when we went to go build, you know, digital media and AWS, we put like two of our smartest, you know, leaders in the company on those things, Steve Kessel and Andy Jassy. And number two, they were meeting with Jeff regularly. Jeff was deeply engaged wi…”

“I think he's super smart. I actually think he has more emotional intelligence than, well, than Jeff did, or at least that he's willing to show, you know, more empathy. But I don't see that spark of almost manic Inventiveness in him. You know, he always struck …”

“What I'm concerned about is that I see a lot of attention to brass tacks, you know, Andy Jassy sweet spot kind of stuff, but like the shopping experience is, in my experience, it's degrading, you know, the product pages are hard to navigate. There's more and m…”

“I was really surprised that Jeff Wilkie was not the successor. In my mind, he was, he would have been perfect. He had all that hardcore logistics and retail knowledge, and he also kind of got the soft stuff in a way that very few Amazon leaders did in my exper…”

“I think it's possible that Jeff picked a CEO for a world that doesn't really exist anymore.”

“I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility. I, he's still on the board, of course, I could see him coming back. I don't think it's going to be like a Ryan Peterson scenario where he comes back and it's like, get out of here, Andy Jassy and take your tea…”

“And then, 2002 1001 dot com crash. Amazon acts as the whole marketing department. Cause you know, we're not doing ads anymore. We gotta get profitable. And Jassy was gonna get laid off with the whole department, but Jeff liked him. And so Jeff said, I'm gonna …”

“In the document, there is an ask, a proposal to hire 57 new people to go pursue this initiative.”

“Andy would later say, this is a great quote, and this is absolutely true. He says, if you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, Then the operating system becomes the internet. And that's so tru…”

“One of the biggest things that Jeff and Andy argued about was Do we ever have reps? Now, eventually they did put reps. They put reps a little later than when Andy would have wanted because Azure was going and really winning the hearts and minds of Europe and p…”