Builder & Scaler | Independent Director | Former AWS VP | Investor Always curious. Loyal Boston Red Sox fan. Digs motorcycles. Thoughts are my own.

Boston / Cambridge
Joined May 2009
#HillaryAndLiz2024. 🙏🏽Joe for 50Y! America now requires a stronger offense - x-aisle leaders who will unite us on common ground. Hillary and Liz will set us on the road back to being the “shining beacon on the hill”. For our future #LizCheney #HillaryClinton. @reidhoffman?
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Frank Slootman really is the business version of a Navy Seal. And when a CEOs retirement prompts a $17 billion loss in market cap, it's worth understanding. I reread his original 2018 Amp It Up essay & these were my favorite passages:
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#scaleupai “If you don’t have what you need to clean, organize and *manage your data, you are not yet ready for (at-scale/production) (GEN)AI” - Naveen Rao Databricks via MosaicML
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#scaleupai “You need to think big before it (genAI) thinks bigger than you” - Marco Argenti CIO Goldman
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#scalupai Governance needs to be inclusive within an organization, business, governance, data team, devOps, devMLops, and constantly measure and iterate, it’s not self maintaining - Triveni Gandhi, Ph.D - Dataiku
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#scaleupai Only 31% of boards have any technical expertise. And people now have more trust in companies than government. Critical that boards be educated, starting w ethics - Dottie Schindlinger - Diligent Institute.
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#scaleupai question-thought: will AI power resergence of US manufacturing through robotics?
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Lets round a bit and say 100! Looking forward to see you in a few weeks @re:Invent 2022! 11th annual opportunity to gather with innovators, builders, operators, and buyers - #Pioneers! #storage , #hybrid #EdgeComputing , and #dataprotection #dataSecurity sessions and EBCs!
#AWS Storage is bringing you nearly 💯 sessions at #reInvent 2022, plus we have a special guest lined up for an appearance! Check out this blog for a full list of our sessions and for a first look at the newest member of the AWS Storage family. go.aws/3fN5Ndm
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Spot on and vastly significant, becoming more and more so: #knowledgeispower tiktok.com/t/ZTRmL2bmF/
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One more Peace Prize by @ZelenskyyUa comes to @awscloud. Amazon AWS literally saved our digital infrastructure — state registries and critical databases migrated to AWS cloud environment. Ready to cooperate on gov tech solutions and reform judicial sphere radically. @liammax
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Captures a lot of what defines Amazon’s leadership principles. Reading - important. Internalizing - fundamental. Practicing intentionally - essential.
I read all 40,000 words from Jeff Bezos' Amazon shareholder letters. Here are 9 lessons worth your time:
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Fun with our favorite piglet - @Quinnypig a.k.a. Corey Quinn! Thanks for the opportunity to connect and chat. Always always fun!
Wayne Duso (@wayneduso), VP of Engineering and Product at AWS, joins Corey to talk about EFS and more! Have a listen: buff.ly/3rPL384
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According to a new @forrester TEI study, #AmazonEFS can deliver a 219% return on investment 📈. Read the study to learn how a simple, set-and-forget, elastic file system can help you lower your TCO. go.aws/3nf5GI1