Ethan Evans

Former Amazon vice president who spent 15 years at the company, leading work on Amazon Prime and later serving on Twitch’s executive team after its acquisition by Amazon. He is now an executive coach and shares firsthand experience working with Jeff Bezos.

Jeff Bezos’s Fast Judgment Made Amazon Strong—and Made Dissent Harder

Ethan Evans spent 15 years at Amazon, including time as a vice president. He says Jeff Bezos combined patience about long-term bets with urgency about daily progress, and that his sharp judgment made him formidable but not infallible. Evans describes Bezos pressing teams over failures and using customer complaints to demand answers, while relying on dependable operators to take difficult work to a solid result.

My First MillionOct 28, 202619 min read