3 More Questions (Andy Jassy) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

Welcome to How Leaders Lead, I'm Cool Callahan, and it's time for another edition of Three More Questions. Today's episode is debriefing David's conversation with the CEO. Of Amazon. Perhaps you've heard of that little company. David, we're debriefing your conversation with Andy Jassy, and as one can imagine, This episode is chalk full of powerful insights and amazing stories. About Andy's career and how he is leading at Amazon. Yeah, he's been so instrumental in their growth. I mean, he's the force behind AWS and he is the guy who really built that huge business, which has got to be seventy five, eighty percent of their total profits. Uh but you know I'll tell you what's really interesting about him.

is I had another chance to spend some time with Andy at a at another function and uh he's about as down to earth as you could ever imagine. I mean he's just a really good guy, very kind, thought, wonderful person That just happens to be smart. And just happens to be incisive and a driver and can make things happen. And it's really great when you can meet people like that. Absolutely. I also loved hearing about his career journey because the path he took was not straight and narrow to the CEO of Amazon. He almost started a record company at one point in his career. Yeah. Yeah. Uh he loves music. He loves sports and obviously loves his family and uh he's just a guy who's got a lot going on and seems to to know how to keep it together.

Absolutely. Well David, I'm excited to get your take on some of the concepts that you and Andy discussed, so let's get going with today's questions. Alright, let's go. Question number one. Andy talks in the episode about how young people Feel so much pressure early on in their careers to figure out exactly what it is they want to do with their life. And Andy doesn't believe that's true. In fact, His own career journey was a windy road before he landed at Amazon. David, what's your perspective on that? I mean

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