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Re:How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born by felipe on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @03:44PM (#466465)
Three small things that demonstrates how Bezos is an unique leader:

1) "we presented the paper to bezos" -- Wow, engineers have direct access to the CEO.

2) "we presented the paper to bezos (he doesn't do slides)" -- Wow, a CEO that actually has some attention span

3) "we presented the paper to bezos (he doesn't do slides), he liked a lot of it" -- Wow, a CEO who actually understands technology

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Re:How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born by ooorrr on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @04:19PM (#466518)
All of those are true. The lack of powerpoint at Amazon is not a myth - docs are the order of the day. This is more good than bad, but has some of both.
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Re:How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born by brandonkm on Thursday February 05, 2009 @02:35AM (#467344)
This is a great aspect of the culture there that has helped Amazon maintain its technical competitive edge.
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