ummm some personal news?...
Brian Hall
9,897 posts
Brian Hall
@IsForAt
#1 WA state stan. x-VP Google, AWS, Microsoft + startup CEO. Seattle native, helpless M's (and WA) fan. Massie kinda R, MGP kinda D. need opptys for our kids.
Seattle, WA
Joined February 2012
- Some people might know that Amazon sued me after I had left AWS and later went to Google Cloud. cnbc.com/2020/06/11/aws…. I cannot be happier to see the FTC ruling to ban non-competes in the US. "Noncompete clauses violate a 110-year-old law that prohibits unfair methods of
- "Google’s cloud business turns profitable". Big congratulations to everyone who helped get us here! Looks like Google Cloud is also the fastest growing cloud again, which is pretty exciting too. What a fun market and opportunity.
- Hey Tech Twitter. Microsoft did something amazing with VS Code. I have watched for a while, but I don't think I really understand why it became so popular and successful quickly. Who should I talk to to learn here? I'll return the favor in any way I can.
- Just gotta say @AngieMentink is phenomenal on the calls for @Mariners. Great insight, great cadence, and WONDERFUL laugh and sense of humor. Thanks team and @ROOTSPORTS_NW for putting her in the bigger role she deserved.
- Replying to @thechrisperryHaving been at MS for 20 years and then working at AWS and Google, I can tell you it is WAY underrated. Things that were just easy for me at MS took way longer to be able to do at new companies. Though time in seat and inter-mingling definitely help over time!
- Replying to @0xMattjust full gutted me. the worst anyone had ever treated me in my life.
- For 20+ years I have been using paste special to paste without formatting OR going to Notepad, pasting, then copying. I am today years old when I learned you can do Ctrl-Shift-V and paste without formatting in Chrome.
- Proud of team Google Cloud! Another pretty good quarter - fastest growing cloud at 28% (to >$8B last quarter), more profitable now, and more than 70% of generative AI unicorns are Google Cloud customers now. Lots of work to do still, but worth taking pride in the quarter still
- Google gave employees a day off today. I'm betting Amazon will be wishing they had done the same today for their execs (trust me, no social media manager is baiting senators without Jay, Jeff, Dave, or Andy approving). This is some epic Amazon internal echo chamber leaking out...
- Replying to @fxshawwell done MS. This seems very thoughtful and really demonstrates listening.
