>The request didn’t seem to make much sense. In fact, to this day I’m not sure what the product will be used for—but we dropped everything else we were working on and scrambled to get the demo done in time.
>The next day we returned and presented the feature to Bezos. I knew instantly that he wasn’t satisfied. For two minutes we stood in silence as Bezos picked our feature apart. He spoke as if he had already built the product himself.
How could this engineer even hope to solve a problem if he didn't understand it? Jeff Bezos spoke as if he had already built it because he was probably the only person who understood what he wanted. The entire story sounds like an utter waste of time.
>The next day we returned and presented the feature to Bezos. I knew instantly that he wasn’t satisfied. For two minutes we stood in silence as Bezos picked our feature apart. He spoke as if he had already built the product himself.
How could this engineer even hope to solve a problem if he didn't understand it? Jeff Bezos spoke as if he had already built it because he was probably the only person who understood what he wanted. The entire story sounds like an utter waste of time.