Name That Tool
Before Amazon
Current AI Headlines
By the Numbers
Finance Fundamentals
100

This procurement tool handles purchase orders and invoicing across Amazon.

What is Coupa?

100

This team member went from tossing dough to tossing spreadsheets, starting their career making pizzas before eventually managing a Pizza Hut.

Who is Matt?

100
This Amazon service lets developers build generative AI applications using foundation models from multiple providers.
What is Amazon Bedrock?
100
Amazon was founded in this year.
What is 1994?
100
EBITDA stands for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and this.
What is Amortization?
200
This tool manages contingent workforce - temps, contractors, and their statement of work extensions.
What is Beeline?
200
This team member traded stethoscopes for spreadsheets, coming from the world of medical device manufacturing.
Who is Kayla?
200
This AI company, backed by Amazon, is the fastest growing software company in history.
What is Anthropic?
200
This is the number of Leadership Principles Amazon currently has.
What is 16?
200
This financial statement shows a company's assets, liabilities, and equity at a point in time.
What is a Balance Sheet?
300
This AI-powered physical security platform uses computer vision to monitor camera feeds, detect threats, and eliminate 95%+ of false alarms across Amazon facilities.
What is Ambient.ai?
300
Jeff Bezos originally wanted to name Amazon this, before his lawyer talked him out of it.
What is Cadabra?
300
This term describes AI systems that can autonomously plan, use tools, and take actions to complete multi-step tasks without human intervention.
What are AI Agents?
300
This is the approximate distance in miles from Seattle to IAD (within 200).
What is ~2,400 miles?
300
This term describes a non-cash expense that reduces the value of a fixed asset over time due to wear and usage.
What is depreciation?
400
This autonomous system pairs GenAI models with Amazon knowledge bases to detect security vulnerabilities in application code at scale - before it reaches production.
What is Cataphract?
400
This team member ran a wine store in the Idaho mountains - proof that good judgment in investments started early.
Who is Mike?
400
This Chinese AI lab shocked the industry in early 2025 by releasing a competitive open-source model at a fraction of the training cost.
What is DeepSeek?
400
As of 2025, this is Amazon's approximate global employee count (within 100K).
What is ~1.5 million?
400

Under GAAP, this accounting standard (ASC 730) requires MOST R&D costs to be treated this way.

What is expensed as incurred?

500

This telemetry service runs an agent on hosts to capture security-relevant data from kernel interfaces, so AmSec can detect exploits and monitor compliance.

What is Chronicle?

500
This team member's previous industry is now legal in most states but still can't be expensed in Coupa.
Who is Carly?
500
These two key metrics are used to evaluate the performance of AI models in machine learning and information retrieval - one measures how many results are relevant, the other measures how many relevant results were found.
What are precision and recall?
500
Amazon's stock price on its IPO day in 1997 was this amount per share.
What is $18?
500

Unlike most companies that focus on EPS, Amazon has historically emphasized this metric as its north star

What is free cash flow?

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