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Jeff is a man of contradictions. I’ve heard him micromanage to the level that individual AWS launch pages were reviewed and approved by him; so were the choice
by 8ytecoder 6y ago
Jeff is a man of contradictions. I’ve heard him micromanage to the level that individual AWS launch pages were reviewed and approved by him; so were the choice of databases (oracle vs MySQL) and SOA. At the same time, he gives extreme leeway and time for product teams to prove their mettle. The general assumption is you have 7 years from start to profitability. It’s a long time by tech industry standards. (Just look at Google).
- somethoughts 6y agoYes - that's part of magic - as the founder you have the latitude to go to any level of the corporate stack and critique things. Jeff could probably go to any Amazon distribution center on any random day and start critiquing at how things were being packed inefficiently in boxes and people would fix things in the next hour. It'll be interesting to see if Andy Jassy can metaphorically do similar things.