Rapid Response: Amazon’s plan to be big, green, and beloved, w/AWS CEO Adam Selipsky
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Amazon wants to get bigger, but with that scale comes great responsibility. So says Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, the most profitable and fastest growing part of the tech giant. Selipsky, who also oversees Amazon’s climate change efforts, points to two additions to the company’s vaunted “Leadership Principles” as evidence of Amazon’s commitment. Arguing that AWS is still in early days, he shares what he’s hearing from other CEOs about their biggest concerns, why “carbon intensity” is the best measure of climate progress for businesses, and what Amazon's aspiration to be “Earth’s best employer” really means.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, this is Chris Gotier, I'm one of the producers of Masters of Scale. |
| 0:04.8 | I want to tell you about a show from our friends at Harvard Business Review that might help |
| 0:08.5 | you better understand the world of business. |
| 0:11.2 | It's called HBR IdeaCast. |
| 0:14.2 | Each week, Harvard Business Review editors bring you the world's leading business and management |
| 0:18.5 | experts. |
| 0:19.5 | But it isn't just another business podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | We think you will find so many connections from IdeaCast to how we hear at Masters of |
| 0:26.6 | Scale think about scaling our business. |
| 0:29.8 | For instance, they often approach business challenges from contrarian points of view, |
| 0:33.8 | telling surprising stories like, what can we learn from NASA about managing high-risk |
| 0:38.9 | projects? |
| 0:40.4 | And what can a comedian teach us about using humor to lead a team? |
| 0:45.0 | Subscribe to HBR IdeaCast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:50.2 | Now onto the show. |
| 0:53.1 | We have to work really hard to act as insurgents, not take anything for granted that we've |
| 0:57.7 | achieved. |
| 0:59.9 | The cloud is going to push out everywhere. |
| 1:01.9 | We're maybe 10 yards into the 100 yard race. |
| 1:04.8 | And I'm talking enterprises and startups and nonprofits and government agencies. |
| 1:11.3 | Our success and our scale do bring broad responsibility. |
| 1:15.7 | Amazon has been very public about a pledge, a goal, to be net surrogab and across the |
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