We have a lot of people in Seattle, but we also have a lot of people in Bellevue and it is where… — Andy Jassy Being Copy Share Image
I've been at Amazon for almost 20 years at this point, so I've obviously drunk the Kool-Aid. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Tennis is very much a meritocracy. There's no favoritism, there's no politics. You either win or lose based on how you perform… — Andy Jassy Favoritism Copy Share Image
When you have a new idea that hasn't been done before, you need that conviction, that blind faith that it could work. — Andy Jassy Blind Copy Share Image
Jeff is an incredibly unusual leader who is unbelievably talented and I learned a massive amount. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
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 Business Copy Share Image
With everybody being remote and everyone just getting one square, we have contributions and participation on a much more even playing field. — Andy Jassy Being Copy Share Image
We don't think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
We believe that governments and the organizations that are charged with keeping our communities safe have to have access to the most… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
You just can't learn certain lessons until you get to different elbows of the curve in scale. With a business that most… — Andy Jassy Business Copy Share Image
I mean it's easy to have a website. It's inexpensive to do so, and most of the small businesses have that, but… — Andy Jassy Business Copy Share Image
These are serious problems in all of our major cities: homelessness, education, there are are a number of them. And they require… — Andy Jassy Business Copy Share Image
Well, I think that the pandemic, I mean what a crazy period. I don't think any of us have lived through anything… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
If something is going to happen, whether you want it to happen or not, it is going to happen. And you are… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
You can imagine all the things that people want in machine learning and artificial intelligence area that we're working on, that we'll… — Andy Jassy Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
We knew that the largest consumers of infrastructure would be large enterprise because they spend more absolute dollars. But we also had… — Andy Jassy Business Copy Share Image
Being successful right away is obviously less stressful, but when it takes longer, it's often sweeter. — Andy Jassy Being Copy Share Image
Between what we do with Alexa and what we do in the living room, I think we have an opportunity to change… — Andy Jassy Change Copy Share Image
Tennis taught me what happens when you really work on something, and what happens when you don't. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Re: Invent is different from the typical technology-industry conference in that it's not a sales and marketing event, but about learning and… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
I think a lot of societal good is already being done with facial recognition technology. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
It's not a surprise to us that every large technology company is trying to build an offering like AWS' because it's such… — Andy Jassy Business Copy Share Image
We had a really animated debate about whether we should allow third-party sellers to sell on the Amazon site. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
When we launched Lambda, the first serverless compute service, it was a watershed moment. — Andy Jassy Computers Copy Share Image
For me, it was valuable just to be able to watch how Jeff operated every day, as well as his leaders and… — Andy Jassy Day Copy Share Image
I think if you have a large group of people like we do - we have 1.2 million employees - it's almost… — Andy Jassy Country Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You have to know what your customers think about your product and where you sit, relatively speaking. You have to know what's… — Andy Jassy Customer Copy Share Image
Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
In the case of games, we have a belief that that could end up being the largest category in entertainment over a… — Andy Jassy Belief Copy Share Image
A lot of companies really will only pursue businesses that are adjacent or look like an extension of their current business -… — Andy Jassy Business Copy Share Image
I took my last final exam at HBS, the first Friday of May in 1997, and I started Amazon next Monday. No,… — Andy Jassy Friday Copy Share Image
People ask us a lot about the notion of spinning AWS off. We have no plans to do so. I will never… — Andy Jassy People Copy Share Image
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… — Andy Jassy Experience Copy Share Image
We compete with very large companies. These are companies like Walmart and Target and Kroger and some very successful digital companies like… — Andy Jassy Ability Copy Share Image
We'd realized in the first ten years we'd built an infrastructure competence deep in the stack - reliable, scalable cost effective data… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
I think at the end of the day with any technology, whether you're talking about facial recognition technology or anything else, the… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
AWS moves fast, listens to customers, and creates value on top of our already successful cloud-computing infrastructure. We're consistently thinking two to… — Andy Jassy Cloud computing Copy Share Image
Even when we go back to having meetings in person, we will continue to incorporate a lot of the things we learned… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
We have a large number of people working in AI. If you look around homes and the workplace, there are all these… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
