#JassyCEO

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I remember in 2007, 2008 when we had the recession, there were all of these very gloomy emails sent from a lot of venture capitalists, saying, Don't expect to get funded.'

- Andy Jassy

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These are serious problems in all of our major cities: homelessness, education, there are a number of them. And they require hard thinking and innovative solutions. But I think cities are so better off working with the business community towards joint solutions, rather than trying to tax them.

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I would say that things like the head tax in Seattle I think are super dangerous for cities to implement. What company is going to want to start - or move to or grow in - a city that penalizes them for hiring full-time employees?

- Andy Jassy

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For me, it was valuable just to be able to watch how Jeff operated every day, as well as his leaders and his direct reports.

- Andy Jassy

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At Amazon, we are very careful about what big strategic bets we place, but the ones we make, we keep iterating until we find something that we think has resonance with customers.

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What I did know from having started businesses before Amazon, as well as from my time at Amazon, was that when you are trying to do something new, it's really a waste of energy to spend a lot of cycles wondering whether it's going to be a success or not.

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We started to consider what became Amazon Web Services between 2000 and 2003.

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It's not a surprise to us that every large technology company is trying to build an offering like AWS' because it's such a good value proposition for customers.

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Re: Invent is different from the typical technology-industry conference in that it's not a sales and marketing event, but about learning and education.

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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.

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We have a lot of people in Seattle, but we also have a lot of people in Bellevue and it is where most of our growth will end up being.

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

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I think our relationship with Seattle has had ups and downs frankly.

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I think if you have a large group of people as we do - we have 1.2 million employees - it's almost like a small country.

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A lot of companies really will only pursue businesses that are adjacent or look like an extension of their current business - which by the way is a completely rational strategy.

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

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