Dave Isbitski of Amazon Talks About the Early Days of Alexa - Voicebot Podcast Ep 110

David Isbitski joined the Alexa team in early 2015, shortly after
the Amazon Echo launched and before Alexa Skills Kit or the skill
store. When he started, it was all about developer office hours,
slack groups, and meetups. Today, it is more often about
conference keynotes and boardrooms. Bret Kinsella interviewed
Dave at the Voice 19 Conference to get a sense about how things
have changed over the past five years and what that means going
forward for voice assistant adoption.


Isbitski is currently chief evangelist for Alexa and before 2015
he held a similar role for the Amazon App Store. Prior to that,
he spent 6 years as a technical evangelist at Microsoft and
earlier in his career he was a technology manager at J&J and
a Principal at BT.