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They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a
conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership, and high
bar for talent. Later Amazon would add a sixth value, innovation.
— Jul 29, 2026 07:42AM
conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership, and high
bar for talent. Later Amazon would add a sixth value, innovation.
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. In other words, it needed to break its infrastructure down into the smallest,
simplest atomic components and allow developers to freely access them with as much
flexibility as possible.
— Jul 29, 2026 08:05AM
simplest atomic components and allow developers to freely access them with as much
flexibility as possible.
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They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a
conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership, and high
bar for talent. Later Amazon would add a sixth value, innovation.
— Jul 29, 2026 07:42AM
conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership, and high
bar for talent. Later Amazon would add a sixth value, innovation.

