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Panos Panay

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570 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

You made the call and you have to make decisions sometimes. Man, and those are hard. Like you lose sleep over it. Like when I made the decision to have the event, Yeah. We're doing it. And we're like, well, product's not 100% done. I go, doesn't matter. I'm at 90% usage. We're going. And everyone's like, you realize that, and that was a two-way door decision, until I send out the invites.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

You made the call and you have to make decisions sometimes. Man, and those are hard. Like you lose sleep over it. Like when I made the decision to have the event, Yeah. We're doing it. And we're like, well, product's not 100% done. I go, doesn't matter. I'm at 90% usage. We're going. And everyone's like, you realize that, and that was a two-way door decision, until I send out the invites.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

You made the call and you have to make decisions sometimes. Man, and those are hard. Like you lose sleep over it. Like when I made the decision to have the event, Yeah. We're doing it. And we're like, well, product's not 100% done. I go, doesn't matter. I'm at 90% usage. We're going. And everyone's like, you realize that, and that was a two-way door decision, until I send out the invites.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And so we checked the information the day before we sent out the invites. They're like, we're going. The minute you send the invites, that's a one-way door decision. There's no pulling back. It didn't matter how sick I was. You know, it doesn't matter who couldn't make it. It didn't, none of it mattered.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And so we checked the information the day before we sent out the invites. They're like, we're going. The minute you send the invites, that's a one-way door decision. There's no pulling back. It didn't matter how sick I was. You know, it doesn't matter who couldn't make it. It didn't, none of it mattered.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And so we checked the information the day before we sent out the invites. They're like, we're going. The minute you send the invites, that's a one-way door decision. There's no pulling back. It didn't matter how sick I was. You know, it doesn't matter who couldn't make it. It didn't, none of it mattered.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And, you know, then now we're lining it up, lining, you know, we had the venue booked and we're like, okay, that wasn't a one-way door decision. You can always cancel the venue. Not cool. But if you had to, you know, and you kind of go through it and then you go, you get to that point. Yep. That's it. There's no new, there's no new information that was going to change it. And so great leaders are,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And, you know, then now we're lining it up, lining, you know, we had the venue booked and we're like, okay, that wasn't a one-way door decision. You can always cancel the venue. Not cool. But if you had to, you know, and you kind of go through it and then you go, you get to that point. Yep. That's it. There's no new, there's no new information that was going to change it. And so great leaders are,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And, you know, then now we're lining it up, lining, you know, we had the venue booked and we're like, okay, that wasn't a one-way door decision. You can always cancel the venue. Not cool. But if you had to, you know, and you kind of go through it and then you go, you get to that point. Yep. That's it. There's no new, there's no new information that was going to change it. And so great leaders are,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

They'll make those decisions, but they'll always be willing. They'll always be willing to check themselves and not just check themselves, but be willing then when they have new information, if the right decision is in front of them, you gotta change it. And I always live by it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

They'll make those decisions, but they'll always be willing. They'll always be willing to check themselves and not just check themselves, but be willing then when they have new information, if the right decision is in front of them, you gotta change it. And I always live by it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

They'll make those decisions, but they'll always be willing. They'll always be willing to check themselves and not just check themselves, but be willing then when they have new information, if the right decision is in front of them, you gotta change it. And I always live by it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And so when you come to this world of, when you say, you know, this culture, like Nilay, the Amazon culture is incredible. You have no idea how empowering that is. Hey, it's a two-way door decision. All right, let's make the call. If we're wrong, let's deal with it. Yeah. But then we move and we move. And I get accused a lot of, you know, like to make a call and like, do you have all the info?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And so when you come to this world of, when you say, you know, this culture, like Nilay, the Amazon culture is incredible. You have no idea how empowering that is. Hey, it's a two-way door decision. All right, let's make the call. If we're wrong, let's deal with it. Yeah. But then we move and we move. And I get accused a lot of, you know, like to make a call and like, do you have all the info?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And so when you come to this world of, when you say, you know, this culture, like Nilay, the Amazon culture is incredible. You have no idea how empowering that is. Hey, it's a two-way door decision. All right, let's make the call. If we're wrong, let's deal with it. Yeah. But then we move and we move. And I get accused a lot of, you know, like to make a call and like, do you have all the info?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Probably not, but. Yeah, we got to try something. We're moving. Yeah. That's been pretty fun that way.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Probably not, but. Yeah, we got to try something. We're moving. Yeah. That's been pretty fun that way.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Probably not, but. Yeah, we got to try something. We're moving. Yeah. That's been pretty fun that way.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Credit to Andy. That's Andy. That wasn't me.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Credit to Andy. That's Andy. That wasn't me.