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Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

16 Aug 2022 Acquired Amazon.com

“I was thinking of myself over dinner. Man, I don't know if we're doing a good job with this episode.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
16 Aug 2022
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Amazon.com

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…Slash put the baby to bed. Yeah. I was thinking of myself over dinner. Man, I don't know if we're doing a good job with this episode. It's not really a cohesive story. I think it hit me that that is the point. Amazon was doing so much stuff so fast, concurrently, and learning from it, that it's a brute force pathfinding algorithm that has a bunch of concurrent stuff going on. It's unbelievably entrepreneurial. It is the most successful scale innovator in the world that has ever existed. The two pizza teams thing, which I'm sure many people are familiar with. Which I think might have been a Rick Dalzel innovation.…

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