Sanjay Subramaniam

“what’s good for customers is good for shareholders.”
― Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

“As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle.”
― Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

“In an age of instrumentalization, the hobbyist is a subversive: he insists that some things are worth doing for themselves alone, despite offering no payoffs in terms of productivity or profit. The derision we heap upon the avid stamp collector or train spotter might really be a kind of defense mechanism, to spare us from confronting the possibility that they’re truly happy in a way that the rest of us—pursuing our telic lives, ceaselessly in search of future fulfillment—are not. This also helps explain why it’s far less embarrassing (indeed, positively fashionable) to have a “side hustle,” a hobbylike activity explicitly pursued with profit in mind.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Most big technology companies are competitor focused. They see what others are doing, and then work to fast follow. In contrast, 90 to 95 percent of what we build in AWS is driven by what customers tell us they want.”
― Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos