Ethan Evans

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"But he was generally right. He fought the right battle on Kindle. He fought the right battle on Prime and two-day shipping becoming one-day shipping."

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"It was watching a guy come in when we were working on a product once and suggest that we needed to prioritize automating people's whole home Sonos systems... this guy thinks lots of people have whole home Sonos systems."

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"Prime was originally called Project 100 because they had to figure out how to announce it and start doing it in 100 days. It's not a two-day shipping program. It's a two-day delivery program."

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"Everything at Amazon is A/B tested and the winner is what drives up sales. It's a program called Web Lab, and you run a Web Lab, and they have a complicated system so that thousands of competing experiments can be running at the same time."

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"You'd get an email, and it would be a forward of that complaint with just a single question mark at the top... it meant you have 24 hours to get back and explain what's going on... That's a way to scale that culture across hundreds of leaders."

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"Everyone was trying to tell him the Fire Phone was not a good product. It's like trying to tell a new father that baby is butt ugly."