Ethan Evans

Yeah.

And that's why I asked, what did you do last Tuesday?

In hindsight, if you were to go back and look at your calendar, maybe Tuesday, you're like, oh, we nailed it.

But maybe be like, you know, a week later, if I hadn't done that, it probably wouldn't matter.

That auditing your past of how much did I waste and being relentless of I'm not going to let that happen again.

I'm not going to let somebody pull me in to waste work makes a huge difference.

Yeah, so Jeff had a few things he really did differently.

I think the biggest thing I take away is a little bit complicated, but he often said we need to be strategically patient, but tactically impatient.

And what he meant by that was really valuable things take time to build.

So his signature business, of course, is Amazon Web Services.

Well, now it's, you know, over 15 years old.

It took a long time to become this big billion dollar business and now hundreds of billions.

So you had to work on it for a long time.

That's being strategically patient.

Tactically impatient though, is he pressed those teams every day of what did you get done today?

How did you move us closer?

So it's feeling this urgency of how have I moved my business forward as far as I possibly can today?

And yet realizing that building something of real value might take 10 years.

Building something of enduring value.

He was really good at that.