The The Welcome to the Internet History Podcast. I'm your host Brian McCullough. To those of you who have

subscribed to my new podcast, The Tech Mem Ride Home, I thank you. To those of you who haven't subscribed please do so. I think you'll like

it. It's a daily Monday through Friday Tech News Roundup podcast. But today on this pod, we're going to have absolutely one of my favorite episodes we've ever done.

Eugene Wei was an early employee at Hulu, so we'll get some details on that company for the very first time, and he worked

at Flipboard and also Oculus, so we'll get some important context, especially on the future of VR and the like.

But the most fascinating stories you'll hear today will be about Amazon, where Eugene was

the first analyst in the Strategic Planning Department.

As you'll hear, Eugene had a unique perspective on Amazon's early strategy, growth, business structure, really almost a historically unique perspective.

He could see month to month how Amazon was built in the mid to late 90s, what Amazon was trying to do and why, because he was the guy actually

writing the strategic reports.

This is such an amazing perspective on such an important company again historically.

Please enjoy this conversation with Eugene Way because I'm really I'm really proud of this one.

Eugene Way, thanks for coming on the Internet History Podcast.

Thanks for having me.

This is, I'm going to inject myself at the very beginning here, which is probably not

the professional thing to do.

So I was a kid obsessed with

film and went to school for film and ended up accidentally in tech and I kind of

feel like maybe that's sort of a something of a profile to you but when you were

when you were growing up what is what was it that you wanted to be do that sort of thing

I actually really didn't know and even I would say when I was going through

undergraduate you had this sense that all the jobs that were out there were the

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