Dissecting Amazon Leadership Principles (LPs), for Amazonians & Non-Amazonians — Ethan Evans & David Anderson
About the Event
Level Up Newsletter & Community paid members and the Scarlet Ink Newsletter paid members are invited to join this live event with Ethan and David dissecting Amazon Leadership Principles (LPs) followed by a live audience Q&A.
Backstory: Ethan and David
David came to work for Ethan in his final role at Amazon (in Amazon Games) kicking off a friendship that has continued to flourish as they both enjoy teaching and writing on career advice in their post-Amazon lives.
Topics of discussion:
How Ethan and David grew their LP muscles and how they taught their teams.
Dissecting the LPs:
Are Right, A Lot
Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
How do LPs apply to non-Amazonians?
Audience Q&A.
Register to join live.
The event will be video recorded and shared on Ethan's YouTube channel.
About David Anderson
David is the author of Scarlet Ink, a popular technology leadership newsletter.
He spent more than 12 years at Amazon, moving from the lowest level development manager, to a Technology Director and GM. During the majority of those years, David was also a bar raiser and member of the bar raiser core leadership group (helping direct how the bar raiser program operates).
At the beginning of the pandemic, David was asked to help Bezos Academy get started as their CTO. He spent a year at Bezos Academy building the Technology foundation for the school system, and hiring an excellent IT leadership team.
David left the corporate world to pursue his passion for writing, and raising chickens.
About Ethan Evans
Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President after 15 years where he led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.
70+ patents.
Reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and 1,000+ hires.
Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.
Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's (read the story).
Ethan has promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of his former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.
Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to focus on paying forward his good fortune to others.
Prior to Amazon, Ethan spent 12 years at 3 startups.
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Check out Ethan's website: https://www.ethanevans.com/