Christopher Brown, one of the founding engineers behind EC2 and former Amazon Senior Principal Engineer, pulls back the curtain on Amazon's transformation into a Day Two company. The path to tech success fundamentally changed overnight.
From building EC2 in Cape Town to watching Amazon lose its bias for action, Christopher reveals why senior engineers are caught in AI's crosshairs, why the current AI bubble mirrors the dot-com crash, and why garage startups are about to make an unlikely comeback.
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