I had never logged into AWS when I was hired. I just had theoretical knowledge. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king, I’m amazed to this day th

I had never logged into AWS when I was hired. I just had theoretical knowledge. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king, I’m amazed to this day that the CTO trusted me knowing that in advance. Don’t get me wrong, he didn’t blindly trust me. He pushed me harder than any other manager ever had to do things correctly and to think deeply and to write well reasoned documentation and presentations. I told myself that there were only two positions at two companies that could have convinced me to leave. I got hired by one of those companies. He left less than a year later after the company was acquired for 10x revenue. He’s working somewhere else now. I would work for him again in a heartbeat if I were working anywhere else besides where I work now.