Building the core of Amazon Web Services in Cape Town

Willie Trombone said:
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I've heard them called "the bank manager", "the boss", "SWaMBO", "SO"... yacht is a new one.
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Pity they article marginalise the other person in the picture. Who is it? His wife? gf? partner? side piece? sister? cousin? niece? mom? random stranger? dock manager? chief cook? deck hand?
I like the name for the yacht though
 
Interesting article.. though you've clearly "made" it if you get given the leeway to go live in a place like Llandudno to write some software.
 
I remember this being set up in CT and colleagues that went to work there. It felt strange that it was being developed there at the time, so thanks for the trip down memory lane.
 
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The offlice looked like that (right), was in Constantia... and contained patio furniture?
Sounds like someone messed up the furniture order. That's a flipping mansion in any neighbourhood.
 
gotaway said:
Pity they article marginalise the other person in the picture. Who is it? His wife? gf? partner? side piece? sister? cousin? niece? mom? random stranger? dock manager? chief cook? deck hand?
I like the name for the yacht though
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Sigh, this Pinkham guy. I've had conversations with the people that were there in the beginning and basically they say the guy didn't do much.

Additionally Andy Jassy, the man who is now the CEO of Amazon and was the Amazon of AWS until Jeff Bezos stepped down directly commented on this.
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You can read his account here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-...f=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00FJFJOLC

Rather focus on the fact that the S-Team (an elite group of 20 or so VPs/CEOs that make the decisions for the entire Amazon) includes the current head of Compute, Dave Brown, who indeed is a South African and went from being a team manager all the way to the top of the company. EC2 is one one of the most profitable arms of Amazon, if not the most profitable. Or maybe talk about some of the early engineers that built EC2. They were actually building the product. But Pinkham a guy who is good at being hired into high level positions in companies and then job hopping from one massive company to another trying to keep claiming he invented EC2 is just hilarious.
 
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