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Kind of tangential, but is Bezos a programmer type? I thought he came from banking or the big 4. I’m curious if the “malloc for the internet” bit is verbatim.
by el_benhameen 7y ago
Kind of tangential, but is Bezos a programmer type? I thought he came from banking or the big 4. I’m curious if the “malloc for the internet” bit is verbatim.
- hbosch 7y agoI don't think Jeff is a programmer, but I think he is very smart and his success shows that he can understand and create businesses around lots of different types of concepts and ideas. I imagine in reality there is some amount of collaboration that happens before Bezos spouts off something like "create a malloc for the internet", but in any case, it's very strong for his brand of leadership that the lore states it came straight from him.
- fgonzag 7y ago1.) He graduated from CS at Princeton. 2.) Only an actual programmer would know what malloc is and how it works (he knows what it is exactly since he has the idea "malloc for the web")
- hbosch 7y agoPoint taken, I didn’t know Bezos had an engineering background! Amazing.
- eclipxe 7y agoHe's literally an EE/CS Major. He's a programmer at heart. His technical depth is key to a lot of Amazon's biggest successes.
- hbosch 7y agoWow! News to me. Thanks for letting me know.
- tybit 7y agoGreat quite. I had thought the same about his background, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos looks like he was technical at college and the first couple of years (or less) of his career. > He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. and > After Bezos graduated from Princeton in 1986,... He first worked at Fitel, a fintech telecommunications start-up, where he was tasked with building a network for international trade.[28] Bezos was promoted to head of development and director of customer service thereafter.[29] He transitioned into the banking industry when he became a product manager at Bankers Trust; he worked there from 1988 ...
- el_benhameen 7y agoI knew I should have wiki’d it! I suppose a Princeton compsci grad would know a bit about compsci ...
- rjayatilleka 7y agoHe got degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton. I have no idea how competent he is, but I think you can assume at least equal to the average college grad SDE.
- jhall1468 7y agoIn 2006 absolutely. Today, almost certainly not.
- CamperBob2 7y agoHe was at D.E. Shaw, a company not known for hiring dead wood.
- bitpow 7y agoHe said once in a "fireside chat" with his brother that if Amazon went all to shit and never took off, he would probably be a perfectly happy software engineer somewhere.