Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video](youtube.com) |
Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video](youtube.com) |
Also, Bezos was a Computer Science major and a developer for 4 years after graduation.
Equally impressive since Jassy isn't really a technologist either.
It’s obvious if you’re running a big data center yourself that you’d rather pay someone else to do that, it’s just that no one wanted to take on that operational burden because it’s a pain. It doesn’t take a technologist to realize that arbitraging pain is where you make money. Everything after that is execution.
There are plenty of people who see the future who aren’t coders, they just usually can’t execute.
And it shows that he's not a technologist. No plan B for when it rains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC2AZAxBQAo
(to be fair 51% of US people https://www.businessinsider.com/people-think-stormy-weather-... believe that too)
;)
Jeff speaks with deep comprehension and enthusiasm regarding AWS, I've never heard him do such a thing for customer experience, and the more abstract and nuance issues of strategic marketing, branding, mindshare yada yada.
I'm not at all surprised to hear him say in retrospect that they will eventually be an 'AWS company'.
Jeff ruminates on the problem a bit, and you can all but see the model come out by the time Jeff finishes answering the followup question :-)
That he thinks it would be interesting to a "subset of users" is kind of amusing :-)
Maybe the slides was meant to be shared along with the video, or they were shared, b ut only with YC attendants.
Anyway, I don't expect Jeff Barr to answer that question, although I'd be happy if he did.
Perhaps my error was saying that Jassy isn't a technologist. He is 100% a technologist and has an incredible ability to absorb and understand very complex technical topics. He just isn't a technologist by training or by trade. He simply has an innate technical ability to such extent that his first job at Amazon was being a technical liaison to Jeff Bezos.