"At the time, Bezos had interviewed virtually every one of Amazon's circa 200 employees; Hart was one of the few the tech entrepreneur hadn't personally appointed. Over the next 23 years at the online giant, Hart reported directly to Bezos as technical advisor to the CEO, and to Amazon's current CEO, Andy Jassy.The lessons Hart learned at one of the world's most famous businesses have stayed with him to this day, where he leads $1.35 billion online learning giant, Coursera."
""I wanted to really transform the company and make it move at a faster rate and do a better job of serving our learners. I felt that one of the most critical things in doing that was ensuring there was really good cultural alignment, and so we introduced a set of leadership mindsets. We looked at some of the most successful companies in the world, we looked at either their values or their principles ... and we created our own that we felt were very"
Greg Hart spent 23 years at Amazon, reporting directly to Jeff Bezos and later Andy Jassy, before leading Coursera. He led Coursera, a $1.35 billion online learning company with more than 1,000 employees, through a deliberate transformation to move faster and better serve learners. Hart adopted Amazon practices such as rigorous early hiring interviews and codified leadership mindsets to preserve passion, customer focus, high standards, and speed during scale. He modeled Coursera's leadership mindsets on successful companies' values and principles. The transformation aligned with exploding demand as learners sought AI qualifications and job-relevant skills.
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