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by mathattack 4376 days ago
Monstorously smart. I consider him one of the top CEOs of all time because he succeeds on so many levels: Business design, technology enablement, hiring, surviving market ups and downs, investor relations...

I had (wrongly) assumed he was a business person first since he had most recently worked at Bankers Trust and DE Shaw. Thank you for the clarification. This explains his insights that would drive AWS.

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DE Shaw is a quant firm and tends to hire out of STEM fields, not arts like business.
Yes. I should have caught this.