Trip O'Dell
According to his guidance counsellors, Trip was destined to be a janitor. Mostly out of spite, he followed a different path and became a product design leader at Adobe, Microsoft, and Amazon (along with several less impressive companies). They were probably right, he does have “issues with authority”.
Technology has always been Trip’s greatest ally. As a dyslexic, and from an early age, technology amplified Trip’s talents as an insightful storyteller, problem solver, (and ironically) a gifted teacher, enabling him to shape the daily lives of billions with products and services that connect technical ingenuity with human potential.
Trip’s work includes designing video games for the Chicago Field Museum, awards for Global Health innovation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the first cloud services at Adobe, patents on the future of reading, future vision for Amazon Alexa and its service domains, and scaling Amazon’s ‘last mile’ delivery experience to an $11.5 billion global logistics system in just 18 months.