Today we're live at Amazon Accelerate, and we're going to be talking about two factors of Amazon you might not know too much about, Amazon EU and AGL. How cool is that? Pretty cool, I think.

Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of the serious sellers podcast by Helium 10.

I'm your host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show.

That's a completely BS-free, unscripted and unrehearsed, organic conversation about serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world.

And we are here in Seattle right now at Amazon Accelerate. Alex, we're in Seattle right now.

Are you also from Seattle?

I'm not from Seattle. I live in Nashville and Tennessee.

I lived in Seattle for almost 10 years, kind of early in my Amazon career,

and I've since moved over to Tennessee where we've got a couple new offices. Where were you born in race? I was born in Minneapolis. I grew up all over. My family moved a ton.

So I was in Minneapolis, St. Paul area, until I was about 10. We lived in Ohio. We lived in Kentucky.

I went to high school in Texas. So I've seen a lot of the country. Where'd you go to college at?

I went to the University of Missouri, so kind of right in the middle of that. Oh no. This is the first time I don't know. I know they have a good football team, but I can't think of the mascot for University of Missouri. What is it?

One of the most common ones. They're the Tigers.

The Tigers! No wonder, I only know the weird one, like Boilermakers or something from Purdue and stuff like that.

Missouri Tigers. All right. And what did you study there?

I double majored. So I went there to go to journalism school. So coming out of high school, I was super interested in sports journalism, writing all those pieces. They got a really good journalism school at Missouri. So that's why I went there originally. As I progressed a little bit through it, it became a little more clear that journalism was declining kind of relative to where it had been. I was also interested in finance,

so I kind of picked up the business major in finance, and that's where I started my career.

Okay. And then when you came to Amazon, what was the first department you worked in?

Yeah, so I was in finance when I first started at Amazon, and I was supporting our operations team.

So primarily our development kind of technical software engineering teams,

who built all of the software that supports our fulfillment centers,

all of our middle mile sort of areas,

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