The Ledger, every show
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.
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Evans: Remote work will triumph over in-person offices in the long term
“I have so much more faith in the opportunity to improve the remote experience. And so I think long-term it's going to triumph.”
Evans: Amazon employees directly confronted Jeff Bezos over taxes at all-hands
“I've seen people at Amazon actually tell Jeff Bezos, you run an evil company while working for it. Like, why are we evil? I had an all hands, a guy, you know, said, we seem to avoid taxes. Why are you such a tax dodger?”
Evans: Amazon employee jumped from $300K to $750K by matching Meta offer
“He went from making about 300,000 and making about three quarters of a million in one jump.”
Evans: Amazon Considered Dropping Ownership Principle, Retained It After Internal Push
“At Amazon, we had an ownership leadership principle, which is part of how Amazon runs. It has a set of principles. And at one point they were considering removing it and I led the fight to keep it. And some of the words in it That I helped create, say an owner…”
Evans: Bezos banned PowerPoint because nested slides buried the Challenger launch risk
“Jeff hated PowerPoint and the famous story why it it's old now, but when the space shuttle Challenger exploded, They went and found the PowerPoint slide had been used to justify the launch. And this PowerPoint had like seven levels of nested bullets and the ti…”
Evans: 70% never ask for raises, but 70% who ask get them
“Second thing is, just statistically, 70% of employees never ask for a raise. This is probably foreign to me and you, because we're, A little aggressive. But, 70% never ask. And yet, of the 30% that do ask, 70% of them get something.”
Evans predicts Amazon will ultimately adopt his truck-based drone delivery patent
“You know, I'm waiting for the, my idea to become part of Amazon's drone delivery system, but I think ultimately it will.”
Evans authored Amazon's rule: an owner never says that's not my job
“And I propose these six words, which are an owner never says that's not my job. Maybe that's seven words. So. I propose this specific language as a part of it. And we sent off this draft and months go by, we hear nothing. And then one day the leadership princi…”
Evans: Survey of thousands of managers shows unsolicited help is extremely rare
“I've surveyed thousands of managers by having them raise their hands and ask them, how often does someone on your team offer you help? ... They all say the same things. Number one, it's so rare to be asked. Number two, it makes an immediate impression on me. A…”
Evans: Amazon's Initial Prime Video Team Was Only Seven People
“Like my first team that built this version of prime video that failed at the demo was only seven people.”
Evans: Amazon engineer rose from SDE II to Director in eight years
“One of my best people I ever worked with joined my team at Amazon as what we would call an SDE two, which in Amazon is a level five employee. He grew with me kind of following this process to a senior engineer. Then he switched to management and ran a small te…”