The speaker characterizes Amazon as an adaptive ecosystem that continually restructures itself, develops capabilities, and then optimizes those capabilities.

“for example, so that's an adaptive ecosystem.”

“it's like an organism and what it does is it's always kind of thinking about new ways to adapt and rewire its structure so it might be like logistics for example and then it will kind of output a bunch of skills and then it will ruthlessly optimize those skills so there's like an adaptive component and there's an optimization component and the organism is just constantly moving around but you know I guess the the question from this perspective though is”