CTO by chance! Short story of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels

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I was recently listening to a podcast which featured Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels.
"Sometimes you have gifts that you don't know about untill you start doing them"

Did you know:

  • He studied radiology and worked at hospitals
  • He was an Academic and had been a research scientist at the Cornell University
  • In 2004, Amazon (the book company!) invited him to give a talk about some material he was working on and Werner seemed skeptical about visiting a "book" company
  • After joining Amazon, in 6 months he became the CTO because the existing "Tech guy" at the company really wanted to be a developer!
#DiverseBackground

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