Comment by adventured

> Bezos didn't build AWS, people who worked for him did.

The people that worked on AWS didn't build it, the other people that worked on AWS built it. That's the meaning of your statement.

Bezos works for Amazon, he decides whether AWS gets built or not, how large resources are deployed in the company, and what the priorities are over time. He worked on AWS. If you aren't an engineer, that doesn't mean you didn't help build a product or business. There are a lot of non-engineers that were required to build AWS, including managers, support staff, sales, marketing, HR, accounting and so on.

Saying he didn't build it and that everyone else did, is the same style of mistake as pretending that Bezos built it by himself would be (and nobody actually thinks he built it by himself).