Evidence receipt / recommendation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: recommendation
16 Aug 2022 Acquired Amazon.com
“In fact, in job postings, I think Bezos put things like experience with websites would be a bonus but not required.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- recommendation
- Recorded
- 16 Aug 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Amazon.com
Transcript context
…I love it. That's so cool. You're so right. He was the right guy for the job. This was a grizzled veteran of building software systems that could work on the Internet. There were not many people who could do that at that point in time. No. In fact, in job postings, I think Bezos put things like experience with websites would be a bonus but not required. There weren't web developers, because there weren't web applications. You would think about it, like, hey, I need someone who can write some C-code and then figure out the glue to make it so that that interfaces with the HTML that gets generated. But that was all brand new at the time. Amazing. Shel and the early team of engineers that they bring on working together get a beta bill pretty fast.…
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