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Jassy seems pretty out of his depth, and the show seems to be run by his lieutenants. They're busy fighting among themselves, the hoped for RTH mass quitting di

Jassy seems pretty out of his depth, and the show seems to be run by his lieutenants. They're busy fighting among themselves, the hoped for RTH mass quitting didn't happen, and generally the house is very messy. There's going to be more bloodletting. Why does Amazon have Wondery AND Audible podcasts? Why Athena AND Redshift? Fresh and Go and Whole Foods? There's a ton of "synergies" post-Bezos that can go.

fnordpiglet 3y ago
Redshift and Athena are pretty different products. Redshift is a high performance high cost online data warehouse while Athena is a commodity wear sweatpants and eat hot pockets no fixed cost manages presto. One is for serious business, the other is for data pipelines and casual analytics on cold storage. I would say too, I worked a lot with Andy, Wilke, and to a lesser extent bezos. Andy is no slouch and he earned his job and Wilke earned his loss. But Amazon is a mess, I can’t defend retails business structure - it’s like a giant blank check to product managers. I don’t know I could classify this as cleaning up Bezos mess, it’s hard to see the immense value he created as a mess, I do think Andy has an Augean stable task ahead of him. I think there’s few people capable of that task as Andy. That said, Andy has a giant gaping hole where his empathetic heart belongs. I am glad I’m not there any more.
- local_crmdgeon 3y ago
  Agreed re: Athena, but customers use them the same way. Sometimes it's just down to different teams in the same companies, it's not great. Otherwise, that's an impressive history - are you a mgmt consultant? Retail could make money tomorrow if it wasn't so insanely poorly run, like you said. It's stuck in the "profits don't matter, just do more stuff" loop, and honestly will be until they cut deep. I also don't understand where Amazon is going with all these other brands. Twitch? Audible? OneMedical? There's no way that they all make it until the end of the decade.

fnordpiglet 3y ago

Redshift and Athena are pretty different products. Redshift is a high performance high cost online data warehouse while Athena is a commodity wear sweatpants and eat hot pockets no fixed cost manages presto. One is for serious business, the other is for data pipelines and casual analytics on cold storage. I would say too, I worked a lot with Andy, Wilke, and to a lesser extent bezos. Andy is no slouch and he earned his job and Wilke earned his loss. But Amazon is a mess, I can’t defend retails business structure - it’s like a giant blank check to product managers. I don’t know I could classify this as cleaning up Bezos mess, it’s hard to see the immense value he created as a mess, I do think Andy has an Augean stable task ahead of him. I think there’s few people capable of that task as Andy. That said, Andy has a giant gaping hole where his empathetic heart belongs. I am glad I’m not there any more.

local_crmdgeon 3y ago
Agreed re: Athena, but customers use them the same way. Sometimes it's just down to different teams in the same companies, it's not great. Otherwise, that's an impressive history - are you a mgmt consultant? Retail could make money tomorrow if it wasn't so insanely poorly run, like you said. It's stuck in the "profits don't matter, just do more stuff" loop, and honestly will be until they cut deep. I also don't understand where Amazon is going with all these other brands. Twitch? Audible? OneMedical? There's no way that they all make it until the end of the decade.