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AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, effective June 3, according to an email from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Matt Garman, SVP of AWS sales, marketing, and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO.
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The memo says that they expected him to be there only "a few years." Are you saying that isn't the case? But, but, the memo... are you saying corporate memos can state something that is misleading?
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No. I asked a question, and I was joking anyways.
age 57 - estimated net worth $50 million (Score:2)
The news articles never ever mention that these are just people cashing out int early retirement with tens of millions of dollars.
What would most people do, work 80 hour weeks in order to increase your net worth from $10 million to $11 million?
At least there is no "we're losing a mentor", "who are young going to look to for inspiration and jobs?" hand wringing crying from the media this time.
Let's give an alternative headline: "Ultra rich 1%'er retires from Amazon with tens of millions of dollars"
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Apparently not someone important who wanted to be.
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I work in AWS and I gotta say, while this left many surprised, there's zero rumors about Adam ever indulging in inappropriate behavior.
The leading theories are:
- he's not sold on the all-in on GenAI
- he's disagreeing with Amazon's ham-fisted enforcement of return-to-office policies (he's actually hinted that in a few all hands).
When stepping down from the cloud... (Score:3)
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Can you please explain, your point seems a little hazy to me.
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Interchangeable (Score:3)
I was hoping it would say he was stepping down, to be replaced with an AI powered by Amazon Bedrock.
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It could be worse, they could have replaced him with an AI based on AWS Trusted Advisor, which is famous for recommending cost savings and security "improvements" that would break your environment if you took them at face value.
When sales runs the organization (Score:2)
Everything, *everything* is about generating sales.
This is what happened to Boeing, they let the number crunchers and the sales department run the company. Engineering was just a necessary evil.
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You need a balance. Letting engineers run a company can have its own pitfalls.
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Agreed. But engineers know (or can learn) more about sales, than salespeople know about engineering.