Jason Bennett

Biography

Jason Bennett, Vice President of Global Startups and Venture Capital at Amazon Web Services, leads a team of business development and sales professionals who work with founders, startups, and venture capital firms worldwide. With more than 15 years at Amazon, Jason previously served as VP of Enterprise and Private Equity and launched AWS's Greenfield business, driving cloud adoption across enterprise customers early in their journey. With over 20 years in technology sales and leadership, he has built a career on understanding what drives customers, from business strategy to technology to culture, and turning that understanding into growth.

Sessions

1. When Good Design Becomes a Business Presented by AWS

   Wed, Nov 4, 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM CT

   Track Entrepreneurship

   There's a moment in every company's growth when the product stops being the whole strategy, and leadership has to build a business bigger than it. Jason Bennett, who leads the AWS Worldwide Startups and Venture Capital organization, moderates a conversation with two executives who've led that shift: scaling a product customers love into a company built to last. The panel digs into the product bets that create real defensibility, why the strongest leaders get specific about the problem they solve and expand across an industry instead of building one-off features for every new customer, and how to hold the line when growth tempts the organization to chase every direction instead of doubling down on what works.