Amazon captures 49.1% of the US eCommerce market share. It has a catalog of 12 million products across all categories and services. Between July to December 2020, Amazon had 3.10 billion mobile and desktop visits. Over $10 billion worth of products were sold on Amazon Prime Day in 2020 and $38 billion on Single’s day.
It takes an astronomical infrastructure to be able to generate those numbers. Infrastructure doesn’t run itself though. It requires people with the calm of a Jedi and the dexterity of a baseball pitcher. The first person on the chopping block when things go wrong is the one who leads them.
Next on my show is Amazon PM, Linkedin Top Voice of 2020 in Data Science, Greg Coquillo . It’s a PM’s job to get everyone back in one piece from the battlefield. An episode you won’t regret watching.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/WPGVMsNXTtI?list=PLtluUSnvgbdF7MlqjX5-IVMCkFGTrEWlz
Audio Link: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/episodes/ML-at-Amazon-with-Greg-Coquillo-eq2u7f
Timestamps of the Conversation:
00:00 intro
04:35 Haiti, Childhood, First Country to get Independence in Caribbean
07:21 Education system, French Language, Earthquake and Poverty
13:52 SATs, Private Tuition and community colleges in US
16:26 Student Debts, Planning for College and Damage Control
18:12 Ivy League vs Second Tier College Degree, Google and Amazon
20:41 Book ‘Price of Admission’, SAT scores and H1b Visa
25:16 Movie Buff, Fiction, Christopher Nolan and Sci-Fi
32:50 Industrial Engineering and Transition to Worklife
37:00 Sundar Pichai, Engineering and Business Worlds
41:32 French Schooling to English Speaking Jobs, SoftSkill
44:53 Getting in Amazon, Selling Yourself and Cracking Interviews
45:45 Amazon Infrastructure, Myths and Realities inside Amazon
39:10 Learning Culture in Amazon, ML University, Jeff Bezos and Tests
57:00 Nokia, Blackberry and Importance of Innovation in Disruptive Markets
58:04 Acquisitions at Amazon and Aspirations of a Book Selling Retailer
01:01:20 Sushi, Wasabi, Naan, Palak Paneer, Fois Gras, Spices and Vinegar
01:08:17 Alibaba, Profit Margin and Growth around the World
01:17:14 Iranian Sanctions, Global Politics and US-China Traders
01:20:35 Gamestop, Bitcoin and Stock Markets
01:28:30 Snowflakes, DataBricks and Gartner Forecasts for Cloud Growth
01:31:11 Amazon’s edge in Infrastructure, SageMaker and Storage
01:34:42 Moore’s Law, Computing Power and Quantum Computing
01:39:14 AI in Future and Nostalgia for the Past, Liberation and Isolation
01:45:25 Psychological Well Being and Impact of Technology
01:44:00 Sofia the Intelligent Robot, Movie ‘Her’, Tony Robbins and Future of Intimacy
01:49:00 Neuroanatomy of Sofia, Greg Theory and Facial Expressions
01:57:10 Time Travel, King, Emperor, Saint, Past and Future
02:01:28 Science, Religion and Spirituality
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Minhaaj Rehman is CEO & Chief Data Scientist of Psyda Solutions, an AI-enabled academic and industrial research agency focused on psychographic profiling and value generation through machine learning and deep learning.
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