During his 15+ years at Amazon, Ethan Evans helped invent Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce. He led global teams of over 800 and holds more than 70 patents. Ethan has reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, made 1,000+ hires, and was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.

Ethan helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan’s (read the story).

At Amazon, Ethan 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 his former reports, 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside Amazon.

Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to pay forward his good fortune.

Prior to Amazon, Ethan spent 12 years at 3 startups.

Ethan now teaches leaders to become true executives. Subscribe to Ethan’s newsletter, Level Up, for ongoing career advice, and consider joining the Level Up Career Community. Ethan also offers a range of Leadership Development Courses (live online and on-demand) that go in-depth on topics like “Breaking Through to Executive,” “Managing Up Successfully,” “Leadership Networking,” and more. If you’d like to connect, you can find Ethan on LinkedIn.

Contact Ethan on his website for inquiries about corporate training, speaking requests, and podcast appearances. | Website
https://www.ethanevans.com/

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Chip is the founder of the Modern Elder Academy (MEA), where a new roadmap for midlife is offered at a beautiful oceanfront campus in Baja California Sur, Mexico, and forthcoming campuses in Santa Fe, NM. His five books have made him a leading authority at the intersection of psychology and business.

Chip had tons of wisdom to share in this talk, including how to use regret as fuel for the future, what founders can learn when they shift their identities, how to manage people older than you, what Chip learned from the people that he mentored, and his favorite interview question.

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• Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top: https://bit.ly/3jtlA2N
• Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age: https://amzn.to/3HFPjOa
• Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder: https://bit.ly/3YjOxwQ

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Gary Vaynerchuk, also known as "GaryVee," is a serial entrepreneur, the Chairman of VaynerX, and 5x New York Times Best Selling Author. He is a leading global mind on what's next in culture, relevance, and the internet. Gary possesses an uncanny ability to recognize trends and patterns early to help others understand how these shifts impact consumer behavior. He is one of the most forward-thinkers in business. Gary's approach sits at the intersection of business and culture. He keenly understands how to bring brand relevance to the forefront.

“It's not a hokey thing to say you have to enjoy the journey. It's the only sustainable thing.”

That’s one of the wisdom bombs from my latest guest on From Start-up to Grown-up, the legendary Gary Vaynerchuk- Chairman of Vayner X and the author of his brand new book, Day Trading Attention.

Here are a few more of the many great takeaways Gary offered during our discussion:

“Chasing the short-term is the number one strategy that makes people fail.”

“Entrepreneurship is a constant game of losing with occasional wins.”

“There’s nothing that happens on earth that doesn’t start with attention.”

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