Ethan Evans VP

In my 15+ years at Amazon, I 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. - Hold 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 mine. I've promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, and drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal. Of my former reports, 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside Amazon. I retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020. Prior to Amazon, I spent 12 years at 3 startups. What I post here is guidance for those who want to become better leaders, perhaps reach an executive level, and is one of my ways of paying forward my good fortune. I hope to give everyone a solid overview of the basics for free and then provide custom help to those executives facing specific problems with my courses, newsletter, and community.