"I think people don’t quite remember the environment then, now that Amazon is so dominant. Google had this product called Froogle at the time"

Lengthy article on the creation of Amazon Prime:

When we went to your team and messed up the project that you’re working on because we’re going to take a lead engineer, we left you with a T-shirt.

Your team literally saw you disappear — like you were no longer in your seat and they had no idea why.