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…All right, Wavii happens, you end up at Amazon, I want to ask one question on Amazon before moving on you founding companies and then we'll get to Convoy. Recently, Amazon has been dubbed the CEO factory. We've seen data of all these great CEOs at big fast-growing companies that have come out of Amazon, what is it in your mind that creates that? There are a lot of other companies too that does a good job of spawning CEOs. One thing that Amazon does is that it expects a lot of ownership from the people that are in the role. It has a culture of assigning a single-threaded leader or a person who's ultimately responsible for the outcome of the thing, at least, in my experience. That design puts you in a position where you feel responsibility across multiple functions even if you don't own all those functions. That cross-functional leadership at many levels of the company and a strong push towards ownership is really important. You see that both on the business side and the technology side. When I was at Wavii, we tended to bias towards hiring a lot of engineers from Amazon. Of course, there are great leaders in every company. Though the experience we had was that they had been expected to own more of the end-to-end aspect of their system versus just one piece. I saw the same thing on the product and business side as well. That probably attracts people that want that and then trains people in how to think that way, so then you can slot into those opportunities. Is there a proactivity and a hustle that doesn't exist at other bigger companies? Is that part of it or is that overly mythologized?…

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