What Ethan Evans has said about Jeff Bezos leadership style

3 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 28, 2026

Ethan Evans, Former Amazon vice president (Prime Video, Appstore, Twitch oversight) turned executive coach, has been quoted on Jeff Bezos leadership style 3 times in 1 episode of My First Million, most recently on October 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Evans says one of Bezos's flaws was giving only critical, corrective feedback.
“And that only criticism, only corrective feedback, that was one of his flaws”
My First Million: Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos (Oct 28, 2026) · Listen from 4:05
Evans attributes Bezos's ability to quickly find flaws in proposals to pattern recognition from years of document reviews.
“He literally spent 10,000 hours reading those documents, and giving feedback”
My First Million: Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos (Oct 28, 2026) · Listen from 10:32
Evans says Bezos instructed that anecdotes should be trusted over data because even a 1% failure rate at Amazon's scale affects millions.
“Jeff said between data and anecdotes, trust the anecdotes”
My First Million: Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos (Oct 28, 2026) · Listen from 19:23

Episodes

Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos
My First Million · Oct 28, 2026 · 1 h 16 min
Former Amazon VP Ethan Evans tells Shaan Puri and Sam Parr about Jeff Bezos's management style, flaws, Amazon Prime's origins, and life after Amazon.

In their words

Episodes

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