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Mimi Swain
A cold email got Mimi Swain into Ring. A decade of turning customer signals into commercial systems put her in charge of marketing Amazon's best-known devices.
Amazon
From a garage bookstore in 1994 to a $200 billion quarter: how Amazon turned customer obsession into the operating system of modern commerce, computing, and now AI.
Kurt Beidler
Kurt Beidler is the Chief Executive Officer of Quizlet, the AI-powered learning platform used by hundreds of millions of students worldwide. Appointed in July 2024, he brings 17 years of Amazon experience scaling subscription businesses - most notably growing Amazon Kids+ into the world's largest youth-focused subscription service and launching Kindle into China. Under his leadership, Quizlet has grown revenue to $139M annually while aggressively integrating AI tools including a native ChatGPT app integration, lecture recording features, and an OpenAI partnership aimed at keeping students' entire study workflow on one platform.