Andy Jassy Quotes

Andy Jassy

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 13, 1968

There is no compression algorithm for experience.

Andy Jassy

We've had the facial recognition technology out for use for over two-and-a-half years now, and in those two-and-a-half years, we've never had any reported misuse of law enforcement using the facial recognition technology.

Andy Jassy

We're talking about the national security of our country and modernizing their technology platforms and the foundation on which all those applications are going to be used to protect our country. You have to make sure these decisions are made truly objectively.

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For us, employee safety is priority number one for us in our fulfillment centers.

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We have a large number of people working in AI. If you look around homes and the workplace, there are all these sensors in many devices. This is what people commonly call the Internet of Things.

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Tennis is very much a meritocracy. There's no favoritism, there's no politics. You either win or lose based on how you perform in the moment.

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You have to know what competitors are doing in your space.

Andy Jassy

If you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, then the operating system becomes the Internet.

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You can't just go careening toward your idea without checking in with customers and people who might use it and making sure you're on to something.

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Customers or employees are free to shoot me email. I may not respond to every single one because sometimes the numbers are voluminous, but I read them all.

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At Amazon, with new initiatives, we don't look at something and say, 'Okay, it needs to hit this certain metric.' Because it's impossible to know whether somebody's going to respond to something really new and innovative.

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Simply because Amazon decides to pursue a market segment doesn't mean the customers are going to spend their money there, and so it means that we have to do an amazing job in providing a great customer experience that customers want.

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The reason Netflix chose to use AWS is because they knew they'd be treated as every bit as important a customer as Amazon the retailer is.

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You have got to be maniacal and relentless - relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth.

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When you have a new idea that hasn't been done before, you need that conviction, that blind faith that it could work.

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We knew that the largest consumers of infrastructure would be large enterprise because they spend more absolute dollars. But we also had a mental image of a college kid in his dorm room having the same access, the same scalability and same infrastructure costs as the largest businesses in the world.

Andy Jassy

For me, it was valuable just to be able to watch how Jeff operated every day, as well as his leaders and his direct reports.

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At Amazon, we are very careful about what big strategic bets we place, but the ones we make, we keep iterating until we find something that we think has resonance with customers.

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We feel like we experienced probably two to three years of growth in 18 months. You couldn't probably responsibly plan for a pandemic or the amount of capacity that's needed.

Andy Jassy

We'd realized in the first ten years we'd built an infrastructure competence deep in the stack - reliable, scalable cost effective data centers to grow the Amazon retail biz the way we needed to. But we'd built Amazon so quickly that a number of the pieces of the platform had become entangled.

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