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Geek of the Week: Anu Sharma left Amazon for Madrona to invest in helping new businesses

GeekWire

Sharma, our latest Geek of the Week, spent eight years at Amazon and Amazon Web Services, most recently leading a product management team at AWS for a new service, AWS Outposts , which extends AWS infrastructure and services outside of AWS owned data centers to customer locations or colocation spaces.

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Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

Along with Amazon Web Services, advertising has emerged as one of the company’s top two profit engines. One multimillion-dollar Amazon seller in the apparel category said his firm has had to double their advertising spend on Amazon over the past three years, and subsequently raised their product prices by 20 percent earlier this year.