Culture at Amazon & Facebook runs deep, shared Dan Rose, former colleague of Bezos and Zuckerberg.
While Jeff Bezos is gregarious with his big laugh and well-honed stories, Mark Zuckerberg is quiet, gracious, kind, sometimes awkward, but always authentic, said Dan Rose.
Leading and inspiring a team and running a successful company may seem like a difficult task, but many business leaders have managed to leave their mark.
On Thursday, in a series of 12 tweets, Dan Rose - former colleague of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg - took to Twitter to list the similarities and differences between the two tech bosses that make them generational leaders.
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Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He s written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom s Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal.
How a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web Services
Former Amazon executive documents how getting off Sun hardware to Linux saved the company and led to AWS.
Dan Rose, chairman of Coatue Ventures and Coatue Growth, posted a thread on Twitter the other day, 280 characters or less at a time, in which he chronicled how it came about that AWS infrastructure is built on Linux.
Rose was at Amazon from 1999 to 2006, where he managed retail divisions and helped incubate the Kindle reader before moving to Facebook. So he was at Amazon in 2000 when the internet bubble popped,and one high-flying dot-com after another was shriveling up and dying, having burned through ridiculous amounts of capital on luxurious offices while often having nothing by way of a product to show for it