Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos

Yeah, you asked me about flaws earlier. Like taking your CFO and bitch slapping him in front of a room. It was a message. Feel like I can rule the world a no way To be what I want to I put my all in it like a day's off on the road, let's travel next. Ethan Evans is here. Ethan, your former um

VP over at Amazon Prime. You're there for a long time. You're there you're at Amazon for what? Fifteen years. Two hundred years, maybe. Yeah, well dog years for sure. So Sam, y you don't know this, but Me and Ethan kinda loosely work together. When my company got bought by Twitch, I joined what's called the the ET team, the executive team. And on that team was Ethan and I was I you know everybody else Was

Somebody at Twitch, hey, this person, they work on chat. This person works on video. And then I was like, what does that guy do? Oh, he's the parental guardian. Uh he was assigned by Amazon. Amazon bought this company for a billion dollars and they had to put an adult in the room. And so I was told you were the adult in the room and I was like, Oh, oh, okay, gotcha. Uh better say smart things to this guy. Is that true? Uh that is largely true. There was in fact early on, there was a huge overtone that I was just a spy. And that my job there was to like shadow him it and then take him out.

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