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Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky Will Return to AWS as CEO, Replacing Andy Jassy(geekwire.com)
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by throwaway_aws 6y ago
A clarification: I'm talking about tactics from 2010-2014. I left in 2015.
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by throwaway_aws 6y ago
I wish I could reveal team and product name... but that would be a career suicide. I'm not asking you to believe what I'm saying... but I truly am sharing my experience. I'd encourage you to talk to folks you know from AWS wh
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by throwaway_aws 6y ago
I joined after the team had gotten traction already. Both the GM and senior most product person on the team told me about their tactics independently. To be honest, I didn't think of it as anything sinister at that time. AWS had such h
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by throwaway_aws 6y ago
"An Amazon spokesman said the company doesn’t use confidential information that companies share with it to build competing products" Maybe...but in the past, AWS proactively looked at traction of products hosted on its platform, b
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by throwaway_aws 6y ago
They poached because it was a lucrative business. AWS’ sales pitch was that their service was so much better integrated with the underlying infra. Also, they priced out the competition and offered generous discount for bundling with additio
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by throwaway_aws 6y ago
As for talking to journalists, I didn't leave with any ill will and don't want to complicate my life. I personally know a friend who got involved with journalists... his past employer came to know about it, sued him... and he beca
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by throwaway_aws 6y ago
Throwaway account for obvious reasons. In the past, AWS has used the data from third party hosted services on AWS to build a similar service and in fact start poaching their customers. Source: I used to be at AWS and know the PM & his m