Andy Jassy Quotes

Andy Jassy

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 13, 1968

It's easy to play it safe, but the reality is that if you want to keep changing the world for customers, which we all want to do, you have to make bets and you have to be willing to fail.

Andy Jassy

If something is going to happen, whether you want it to happen or not, it is going to happen. And you are much better off cannibalizing yourself, or being ahead of whatever direction the world is headed than you are howling at the wind or wishing it away or trying to put up blockers.

Andy Jassy

I mean it's easy to have a website. It's inexpensive to do so, and most of the small businesses have that, but to get access to hundreds of millions of customers is hard.

Andy Jassy

There are certain jobs where you can just as easily, in some cases more effectively, work remotely. If you take an engineer, for example, when they get into the mode of coding, being on their own where they're not distracted or interrupted is very helpful.

Andy Jassy

With everybody being remote and everyone just getting one square, we have contributions and participation on a much more even playing field.

Andy Jassy

Most meetings largely take place in one physical location, and then people plug in remotely. But they are a little bit off to the side; they can't participate in the meeting as fully as you like.

Andy Jassy

You have to have the courage to pull the company up and force them to change and move.

Andy Jassy

I think a lot of societal good is already being done with facial recognition technology.

Andy Jassy

When you experience great voice apps, it makes tapping on an app so circa 2005.

Andy Jassy

Tennis was a particularly interesting growing-up experience. It's actually a difficult way of growing up because it's such an individual sport. It taught me a lot of life lessons that have been helpful later in my life.

Andy Jassy

When you look at whether a company is a monopoly or not, the first thing you look at is what kind of market segment share they have.

Andy Jassy

We compete with very large companies. These are companies like Walmart and Target and Kroger and some very successful digital companies like eBay and Etsy and Wayfair, and we don't have the ability to raise prices in any kind of unfettered way.

Andy Jassy

Companies usually are not able to provision accurately the amount of data center capacity that they require, and this problem recurs when they create their own internal cloud infrastructure.

Andy Jassy

If you're flying everyone Business and First Class to meet customers, it's a pretty substantial expense, and none of that benefits customers.

Andy Jassy

The vast majority of companies will not own their own data centers in the fullness of time. All that computing is moving to the cloud. This space is going to be a high-volume, relatively low-margin business.

Andy Jassy

If you do any thorough, apples-to-apples, objective comparison of AWS versus Microsoft, you don't come out deciding that they're comparable platforms.

Andy Jassy

When you have a sitting president who's willing to publicly show his disdain for a company and the leader of a company, it's very difficult for government agencies including the DOD to make an objective decision without fear of reprisal.

Andy Jassy

You just can't learn certain lessons until you get to different elbows of the curve in scale. With a business that most estimate is several times the size of the next nine providers combined, we've learned certain lessons that you just can't learn until you get to that level of scale.

Andy Jassy

When we launched Lambda, the first serverless compute service, it was a watershed moment.

Andy Jassy

In our business, you have to be able to have access to capital.

Andy Jassy