Ian Freed CEO of Bamboo Learning and Head of Amazon Devices When Alexa Launched - Voicebot Podcast Ep 212

Ian Freed is co-founder and CEO of Bamboo Learning, the creators
of award-winning Alexa skills for childhood education. As you
know, 2020 changed everything in education and Bamboo is filling
an interesting gap for in-home learning since 2018.


Before Bamboo, Ian spent nearly 13 years at Amazon. While there
he served in the coveted Tech Assistant to the CEO role where he
was Jeff Bezos' shadow for a year. Afterward, Freed become Vice
President of Kindle and then Vice President of Amazon Devices.
While in the devices leadership role, the development and launch
of Amazon Echo, Alexa, and Fire Phone all reported up to him.
That is some unique insight for you today. 


We discuss Ed Tech, how COVID-19 and quarantine changed
education, the early days of Echo and Alexa, and how the market
has evolved.