Matt Garman, Amazon’s Cloud CEO, Is a ‘Bulldozer’ With an AI Challenge [Video]

At an October all-hands meeting, an Amazon Web Services employee asked executive Matt Garman about the company’s difficult work environment.

The cloud sales chief quickly dismissed the question, saying working at AWS was supposed to be “hard,” according to a transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider. Employees should build great services and create a positive work environment at the same time, he said.

“We love that they are hard, that they are challenging, that we go to solve hard problems,” Garman said. “And we need to have people that can perform at their best in order to deliver for customers in that environment.”

Garman’s directness has earned him a “bulldozer” reputation for a laser-focus on achieving business goals ahead of other priorities, one person familiar with his approach told BI. It’s also what just catapulted him to the AWS CEO job, a promotion that makes him one of the highest-profile executives in tech. An 18-year Amazon veteran, Garman will …

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