Andy Jassy Quotes

Andy Jassy

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 13, 1968

Well, I think that the pandemic, I mean what a crazy period. I don't think any of us have lived through anything like that before and I hope we never live through anything like that after.

Andy Jassy

We had a really animated debate about whether we should allow third-party sellers to sell on the Amazon site.

Andy Jassy

It's like a kid opening gifts on Christmas. The people who come to re:Invent are really excited about what the cloud is letting them do.

Andy Jassy

We've led the way in the $15 minimum wage.

Andy Jassy

The company has been clear from the start that we try to serve customers long-term, and long-term investors are going to be more excited about Amazon than short-term investors.

Andy Jassy

We're much more focused on the long term than most companies.

Andy Jassy

Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense.

Andy Jassy

I think you need a leadership team that is absolutely ravenous to get at the truth.

Andy Jassy

Between what we do with Alexa and what we do in the living room, I think we have an opportunity to change what's possible for people and what's accessible to people.

Andy Jassy

We have a lot of people in Seattle, but we also have a lot of people in Bellevue and it is where most of our growth will end up being.

Andy Jassy

I think at the end of the day with any technology, whether you're talking about facial recognition technology or anything else, the people that use the technology have to be responsible for it, and if they use it irresponsibly, they have to be held accountable.

Andy Jassy

I took my last final exam at HBS, the first Friday of May in 1997, and I started Amazon next Monday. No, I didn't know what my job was going to be, or what my title was going to be.

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I remember in 2007, 2008, when we had the recession, there were all of these very gloomy emails sent from a lot of venture capitalists, saying, Don't expect to get funded.'

Andy Jassy

Jeff is an incredibly unusual leader who is unbelievably talented and I learned a massive amount.

Andy Jassy

It's incredible how passionate people are about having the tools to control their own destiny.

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What's different is with every successive year, as we launch a thousand plus features and services, we just have the capabilities to make it easier for the rest of the market to use us.

Andy Jassy

I've been at Amazon for almost 20 years at this point, so I've obviously drunk the Kool-Aid.

Andy Jassy

My suspicion is that a lot of these office buildings will start to evolve from being optimized for individual offices or cube space to being hot offices where you decide which day you're going to come in and then you reserve a desk.

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You know, Amazon as a whole has become - has been successful, and across a few different business segments, but simply because the company's been successful, in a few different business segments, doesn't mean it's somehow too big.

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AWS moves fast, listens to customers, and creates value on top of our already successful cloud-computing infrastructure. We're consistently thinking two to five years forward.

Andy Jassy