Andy Jassy Quotes

Andy Jassy

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 13, 1968

We always had a lot of optimism for this game, New World.' Customers really liked it; it tested really well.

Andy Jassy

You can imagine all the things that people want in machine learning and artificial intelligence area that we're working on, that we'll continue to work on in the future.

Andy Jassy

We don't think of HQ1 being Seattle any longer. We really think of it as Puget Sound.

Andy Jassy

Customers will always be nervous about lock-in, and I think the experience they had particularly with a company like Oracle, where it's a really hard thing to get out of, and they're so hostile to their customers, that I think it's a concern for every enterprise.

Andy Jassy

You have to be willing to have failures along the way.

Andy Jassy

You have to know what your customers think about your product and where you sit, relatively speaking. You have to know what's working and what's not working.

Andy Jassy

Tennis taught me what happens when you really work on something, and what happens when you don't.

Andy Jassy

If you're going to invest in something over a long period of time, that you believe is important and can change the company, you have to be strategically patient and tactically impatient.

Andy Jassy

There is insatiable demand for AWS cloud services.

Andy Jassy

I think that always our focus is gonna be the customers.

Andy Jassy

During the pandemic in our fulfillment centers, we had a system and a process around people being able to request short and long term leave and the process just didn't scale.

Andy Jassy

Even when we go back to having meetings in person, we will continue to incorporate a lot of the things we learned in virtual meetings to make sure we get the right engagement from all of our remote teammates.

Andy Jassy

We don't think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective.

Andy Jassy

You have to challenge people, often people who know a lot more about a subject than you do.

Andy Jassy

I think that there are a number of older-guard technology companies who either genuinely believe or are hoping people will believe that companies aren't going to move to the cloud that quickly or that a very large amount of workloads will remain on-premises forever. I don't believe that.

Andy Jassy

In the past we've tried to hire people in locations where we have critical mass, because we thought it was better for people's career development and easier for them to collaborate. We realized if you have somebody in a particular location who is willing to work the hours to be able to collaborate, you can do it very efficiently.

Andy Jassy

Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better and then invent ways to make it better.

Andy Jassy

A lot of times in intense moments, you tend to play conservatively because you're just trying to avoid losing, as opposed to trying to win.

Andy Jassy

People ask us a lot about the notion of spinning AWS off. We have no plans to do so. I will never say never, but there's no compelling reason. Amazon has been so generous and gracious in aggressively funding AWS that there's no reason to do it.

Andy Jassy

If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a lot of time on civil liberties. It's something that's very important to me and I think a lot of my peers.

Andy Jassy