I helped Jeff Bezos build Alexa. Here are the lessons that stuck with me from my early days at Amazon.

Chai Atreya. Courtesy of Chai Atreya Chai Atreya's time at Amazon influenced his leadership at his next companies, including ActiveCampaign. Amazon's principles, like frugality, shaped Atreya's approach to decision-making and speed. While the technology has advanced, he still applies lessons learned from Bezos at his job today. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chai Atreya, a 44-year-old chief product and technology officer at ActiveCampaign, who lives in Los Gatos,…