Ethan Evans

I'm not just going to leave it there.

Oh, not my job.

You know, alligator arms, right?

T-Rex.

Well, the basic idea is, you know, shit runs downhill and the manager is either an umbrella over the team kind of covering for that and getting it out of the way so that the team can work.

Whereas funnel managers look like a funnel and they're catching all the crap, passing it by themselves and like, hey, you deal with it, you know.

My boss is mad about this.

You'd better fix it.

My only job is to pass the blame to you and then push you to work harder.

So that's the main difference.

And I've definitely seen both of these.

Yeah, those are stories I can tell.

They come in...

to a case where I failed Bezos.

We can talk about that maybe later.

I failed Jeff twice in my life, like big public failures.

The first one was when we very the very first time we began Prime Video before it was even called Prime Video.

We were going to start showing movie and TVs, and he asked us to come to an all hands of the company and demo the product.

Well, to shortcut the story, I got on the stage and we had a bug, which happens with lots of software.

And you probably know the old movie Office Space, like a red stapler scene.