TIME100 AI 2026 · Leaders
Matt Garman
CEO, Amazon Web Services
He joined Amazon as an intern in 2005 on a project that would become AWS, and 19 years later became its CEO.
- Born
- Scottsdale, United States
- Now
- CEO, Amazon
- Studied
- Northwestern University, Stanford University
Interesting facts
- Early start
Joined Amazon as a summer MBA intern in 2005, recruited by Andy Jassy to help on a new business before AWS had even launched.
kellogg.northwestern.edu - Before AI
Spent five years as a product manager at two startups, Riffage and SideStep, before business school.
linkedin.com - First
Was one of the first product managers for EC2, the rent-a-server service that kicked off the cloud computing era.
platformer.news - In their words
Called replacing junior employees with AI "one of the dumbest things I've ever heard."
platformer.news - Numbers
Says that when he asked a room of CIOs in 2026 who was seeing real returns from AI, 90% raised their hands, unlike a year earlier.
aboutamazon.com
Career
- AmazonCEO, AWS2006 to now
- SideStepDirector of Product Management2001–2004
- RiffageProduct Manager1999–2000
Education
- MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2006
- MS, Industrial engineering, Stanford University, 1999
- BS, Industrial engineering, Stanford University, 1998
