Forget LinkedIn—Amazon’s Andy Jassy started a chicken wing eating club to network when he first moved to Seattle for work

Moving to a new city and starting a new job can be one of the most intimidating parts of building a career. You have to make new friends, rebuild your local network, and, in Andy Jassy’s case, find the best spots for buffalo chicken wings.

Now the CEO of Amazon, Jassy was just another new hire when he relocated to Seattle to join the e-commerce startup in 1997. But he didn’t end up hanging around the watercooler or joining a company kickball league to make connections. Instead, he bonded with colleagues over food. 

“We have an eating club that we started at Amazon when we first got to Seattle,” Jassy recalled on Capital Group’s Power of Advice podcast earlier this year. 

“We didn’t know anybody, so we used to go for buffalo wings every Tuesday night, and there were about a dozen of us at work that did this.”

What started as a weekly ritual at a local Seattle spot called The Wing Dome evolved into a full-blown competition. The event was eventually christened the Tatonka Bowl—a nod to the word for buffalo in the film Dances with........

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