Working With Bezos vs. Jassy

In this lesson we compare the leadership styles of Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, based on Ethan’s roughly 50 meetings with each. We also look at how being a founder changes the way a leader makes decisions.

• As the founder, Bezos could take bets others wouldn’t, such as telling his CFO that his job was to count the pennies and Bezos’s job was to allocate them.
• Jassy is a more classic business leader who partners with his CFO, because he answers to a board and to Bezos.
• Ethan found Bezos more inspiring and Jassy more probing and likely to leave him “on the hook,” and he stresses that this is his personal experience.

Original podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40-ENZmqcz0