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“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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Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years.

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

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

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

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