Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Agility, AI Strategy, and the Changing Role of Managers

that's interesting, the value of a lack of cohesion.. being able to move without the monolith, while still being able to engage with it

Thanks so much...
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I think Amazon could benefit from a general purpose AI (as opposed to only having a specialized AI for products) that looks for opportunities to advertise products to people using it. I realize there are a lot of players in the general purpose AI arena. However, people using a general purpose AI (like ChatGPT) could end up making purchases on other apps like ChatGPT which could circumvent Amazon.

This is a masterclass in clarity, agility and self awareness. Very few non-founder CEO’s can think and talk this way. This is precisely why Amazon will always be in my top 2 holdings at any time. No matter what the state of the market or economy is.

If there is one thing they specialize in that no one else can match up to, it’s in execution. No other company seems to get “sh*t done” in as many unrelated sectors as Amazon has. Unbelievable!

Meet and greet with bezos family is nesscary in terms of executive prowess.

I love when these psychopathic CEOs try to spin things like it’s all positive. He kept saying they’re “going flat” — which just means they fired a bunch of middle managers and plan to replace them with AI. Then he went on about the return to office like it actually brings some benefit. It’s not about collaboration or culture — it’s just about control.

He is a great CEO. I've been a fan of his since he was running AWS.

The interviewer is kind of a stiff seems very elitist and not so much a startup guy

Very good business principle and explanations. I hope in their pursue of customer satisfaction they treat all their workers well.

Thanks , I appreciate the insight.

amazon employees are allowed to work from home on Sat, Sun

There is noting called — a world’s largest startup. He is trying to figure out the operating model for Amazon to grow — next

man llistening to him and not watching the video, he echoes Bezos on alot of ways. definately has my trust.

Startups don’t PIP half their workforce.

Also, properties like Goodreads and Kindle have a million customer ideas and complaints and nothing ever changes. Start there.

Think like an owner. No you are not actually but just imagine it. 😂

Agh Amazon. The Worst Company I ever worker for. Yes, I was getting promoted and getting stock and money, but the overall feeling was one of disgust, corruption and scammer and suckers who want to be leaders but dont have single leadership gene. AWS had their ass kicked by Azure and Google Cloud and lost all the good people. Now AWS is a shitshow and pile of garbage. And If AWS is a shitshow, imagine how much of a shit show amazon retail is. yikes. I just want to throw up.
Amazon in one sentence: The most miserable group of people.

In 30 minutes we had a lesson in management. Thank you very much.

AI to help you spend your money on Amazon? Yeah, we heavily invested in that. :) Open source? Nah.

Thank you for the insight. I really like the idea of choosing something we’re passionate about something we truly want to do, even if it’s hard work. Something we can wake up early for just because we love doing it.

Hey Jasshole: pay your employees livable wages and provide them with healthcare. BTW letting this Jasshole's contract exploit Reagan era policies of legalizing stock buybacks and insider trading. It's legalized crime; it's just a tax-leveraged money siphon from we bottom 80% earners in USA, now look at how we've been promised Trickle-down Economics since said administration stated it, which relies on the beneficence of the employer class... And now look at the pay gap. The wee, little people you feel are worthy of your disdain will not suffer crime out in the open on this large a scale forever.

Exceptional CEO, have followed for years. I think a point missed in the remote/in person work decision is specific to 1) the work you do and 2) the people doing the work. If your high focus is innovation and invention, requiring highly collaborative work with people that thrive in collaboration, then clearly in person work is best practice and most effective. Conversely, if the type of work is head down task intensive , done by people that enjoy that extended head down work and think internally, then the opportunity to work remotely in their own space is a best practice and most effective. Therefore, I propose the work environment and location is not a yes or no answer, it is a "it depends." Requiring the type of work environment and location that is prohibitive to the work and people, results and culture will suffer.

Jassy is a fool. Our data shows it, but how can you measure how well you're inventing. Which is it? Typical CEO word vomits. At one point I found myself just counting cliches that are based on a year 2000 mindset. Last time I checked, we weren't in the year 2000. He is the case study for how to be an incredibly average, boring, and non-helpful CEO.

They need managers because of unregretted attrition goals. It takes a lot of time to run pips for thousands at any given time.

There's nothing collaborative about Amazon. The offices suck. Teams aren't really teams.

Work isn’t optimized around comfort—it’s optimized around velocity, innovation, and shared mission. If the team is fragmented, so is the outcome.

Collaboration is not a toggle—it’s a multiplier. And collaboration compounds fastest in person.

“It depends” is how companies stall. Clarity builds culture. Culture builds momentum. Go back to the office.

Amazon now owns Whole Foods. I will never shop Amazon or Whole Foods because they bullied and harassed the founder John Mackey into quitting just because they did not value his advice or opinions.