VP, Analytics at AWS: Athena, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Open Distro for Elasticsearch, EMR, Glue, Lake Formation, Redshift. We’re hiring! Tweets are my own.
Aug 12, 2020 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
1/ .@kimmytaylor I’m not on the reply list but wanted to share my story (and will answer your question at the end). I joined AWS as a PM ~9 years ago. CS undergrad, did brief stints in consulting and finance but wanted ownership. Enter startups. Also, my first tweet thread!
2/ Went out for happy hour on a Tuesday with three friends in 1999 and a week later, we all quit to try and start a company. We had a number of good ideas but joined other (way more experienced) friends to co-found our first one and moved from Boston to the Bay Area
