Jeff Few

I was the lucky person who got to be Michael’s first phone interview at Amazon. He’s probably cursing the day I found his resumé, but he was a cool person to work with, and whipsmart too!

He taught my catsubst class during my first week at Amazon.com. Ah, good times.

When I was starting out at Amazon, I was fresh out of college and still finding my way around the corporate world. As my boss, JJ had caught me holding my tongue and deferring to my more experienced colleagues, even when I had something useful to contribute. One morning, I found one of those rattling noisemaker party favors sitting on my chair with a post-it from JJ, telling me to use it when I needed to make something known. I haven’t shut up since.

I met Jfew when I interviewed him for Amazon.com way back in the day.

Jeanne was a recruiter at Amazon back in 1999 when I was looking for my first post-collegiate full-time job. I was 18 hours away from accepting a job offer with an ad agency in Connecticut when Jeanne called me about the resumé I submitted to Amazon months earlier. The rest is history. She was even nice enough to reimburse me out of her own pocket when my lunch interviewer stuck me with the bill. A class act all the way.

The last time I saw Jeff was at the Elysian. Which is how I’d like to remember him—drinking. That, and hanging out with his friends having a good ol’ time.