In my 15+ years at Amazon, I led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.

• Hold 70+ patents.
• Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are mine.
• 10,000+ resume reviews.
• 2,500+ live interviews.
• 1,000+ hires.
• Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.

I've promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of my former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.

I retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to allow me to focus on paying forward my good fortune to others.

Prior to Amazon, I spent 12 years at 3 startups.

My signature course Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive is featured in Lenny's List, has 1,200+ alumni, the most recent cohort rated it 4.88/5, and we have upcoming cohorts in July and October.

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Rohan Kamath was born somewhere and then he grew up (or so they say). Along the way, he attended a fancy university where he learned about important things like instant-ramen hacks, student loans, and why they call it “foot-ball” instead of “hand-egg”. He then worked for a few famous smartypants who taught him that work could be a lot of fun if he didn’t take himself too seriously. He has been birding since he was 6 years old, but his favorite bird is still a mean Tandoori Chicken.

When he’s not writing about himself in the third person, Rohan spends most of his time outdoors hiking and birding in the Pacific Northwest with his wife Pk and his puppy Albus. Rumor has it that he builds products at Airbnb although he not-so-secretly wishes he was a chef so that he could forever feed the foodie kid inside him who refuses to grow up.

He is extremely passionate about learning new things and obsessively and consistently reads books every day. He also writes on Quora where his work has been read a few times, and on LinkedIn, where people think he's bonkers. He thinks he’s sarcastic and hilarious, however, most people (allegedly) find him obnoxious and annoying.

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