Amazon Web Services, every mention
197 scenes · ← back to Amazon Web Services
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Harry Stebbings 51Rory O'Driscoll 11Everett Randle 7Linda Lian 6Byron Deeter 6Tomasz Tunguz 5Mike Cannon-Brookes 5Steeve Morin 4Martin Casado 4Jeff Seibert 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon Web Services comes up
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:04 Mark Suster That's when AWS was launched. 2 times in the scene
Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:06 Arthur Mensch Uh, and that's the reason why we, we deployed our platform on Azure and AWS, for instance, that is bringing the security layer that they need.
Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:06 Peter Wagner Like, like when I met, I met Ido Liberty, uh, you know, the founder of Pinecone in 2019, he hadn't, uh, he hadn't left, uh, AWS yet.
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:26 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) And if they weren't willing to try Kindle phone, they would never be willing to try AWS. 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:36 Mike Shebat So what that looks like at scale is the AWS of labor across the global supply chain,
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:54 Tomasz Tunguz So in web two, if you take the top three clouds and you look at their market cap, so AWS, GCP, and Azure, it's about a 2.1 trillion dollar market 3 times in the scene
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:05 Jeff Seibert I view OpenAI probably evolving more into an infrastructure company like AWS.
- ▶ 27:29 Jeff Seibert The one thing I would say is I view open AI probably evolving more into an infrastructure company like AWS.
- ▶ 30:36 Jeff Seibert If you go back 10 years, they were like, I would never put stuff on AWS or Google Cloud or Azure or whatever.
- ▶ 39:54 Jeff Seibert I would look to aggressively move into the space and acquire something to bolster AWS.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:29 Harry Stebbings Amazon in terms of what they have with AWS.
- ▶ 53:06 Des Traynor So let's assume over time, I, I believe that like just, you know, the amount of people investing in the space means that I think the infrastructure layer will gradually get a lot more AWS like, right? 2 times in the scene
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:26 Guillermo Rauch AWS and say, Whoa, what a cluster F they have going there with like, they have all these products and like, they have all this complexity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:41 Guillermo Rauch But the counter thesis to that is that, and this is the famous Jeff Bezos quote and why AWS got so far ahead of the competition, even though the competition knew full well that cloud was a strategic place to go, is that even a two year…
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:56 Christian Lanng And I think the other thing is, if you look at the next generation of stuff about these modes, if you ask me last year, I'd say somebody like OpenAI is going to be like the AWS of, of AI.
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:39 Miles Grimshaw It's sort of like, this is AWS spend
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:04 Brian Balfour And this thing, like, started, this was still before AWS, this thing started melting our servers, like, within, like, four hours.
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:14 Sam Lessin But it was predicated on this idea that because of technology and things like AWS and platforms, that you can very predictably manufacture good companies, right?
- ▶ 17:08 Sam Lessin You know, I do think, though, that in the world of, like, you know, incredible, the world of Stripe, in the world of AWS, in the world of a lot of the things, there's a lot, there's a ton of businesses in the world, right, which are, let's…
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:37 Jason Lemkin We saw this with AWS, Azure, Google.
Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:31 Dave Clark You have a meeting, you know, this hour on AWS, the next hour on the consumer business, the next hour on labor, and be perfectly, uh, in the mode in the moment, which a lot of people have trouble doing.
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:15 Vince Hankes AWS took six or seven years to get to a hundred million dollars of run rate, but they went from a hundred million to ten billion in like six or seven years.
- ▶ 25:09 Harry Stebbings You know, we've seen AWS partner with Hugging Face.
- ▶ 29:52 Vince Hankes I think if you think about infrastructure companies as platforms, you know, if you think about the software market as the relatives, the value of AWS and Microsoft and Google cloud versus the software companies built on top or all of the…
Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:59 Tomasz Tunguz So in web two, if you take the top three clouds and you look at their market cap, so AWS, GCP, and, um, uh, Azure, it's about a 2.1 trillion dollar market cap just for the cloud businesses.
- ▶ 58:31 Tomasz Tunguz And, uh, you know, the, the story there was in 2012, Redshift was the fastest growing product inside of AWS, and Tableau was the dominant BI product.
Mike Maples: Lessons from SVB; Crisis Management Tips; USD's Status as the Reserve Currency | E993 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:16 Mike Maples You used to have the LAMP stack and AWS and stuff like that, that let you reduce the cost of experimentation and getting people to adopt your products.
Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:39 Ariel Cohen Uh, you know, you can ask the same question about AWS, right?
Alex Bouaziz: How We Became a $12B HR Company with 2,000 Remote Employees | 20VC #973 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:10 Alex Bouaziz Uh, they are, I think they can build an iconic company that can properly compete with AWS.
Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:05 Barry McCarthy There was a point in time very early in before the world had discovered AWS and its progeny.
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:44 Marty Cagan What Amazon has done with AWS has been brilliant.
GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:29 Rafael Ilishayev Whether it's, uh, FBA or AWS, uh, is something that we take a lot of inspiration from as we launch our new businesses, right?
Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:33 Kyle Harrison And if that is true, I feel like Blackstone has done a really good job of figuring out what the 80% is, is they've just built this, like, infrastructure that kind of AWS of, of raising capital and deploying capital towards XYZ strategy.
Fivetran's Lauren Schwartz: Must-Ask Questions to Identify Potential Sales Talent | 20VC #939 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:24 Lauren Schwartz And so we work really closely with a number of our partners, Snowflake, Databricks, GCP, AWS, and go to market with their sales teams.
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:37 Gustav Söderström They try to label Amazon as a book company and then as a book and diapers company and as an everything store, but then they started doing AWS and like people can't like pin these companies down.
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:32 Mike Mignano Then they take a step over into, uh, AWS, right?
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:44 Logan Bartlett Who app ever wanted to compete with Amazon on their home turf, which was AWS and, and what we thought was Redshift and EC two at the time.
20VC: Brex's Henrique Dubugras on Advice from Evan Spiegel and Eric Schmidt on CEOship, The Biggest Hiring Mistakes When Scaling, What Everyone Gets Wrong with Product Messaging and When is the Right Time to Launch Secondary Products
- ▶ 3:58 Henrique Dubugras And that was the first problem that we saw was like, how come you have raised five million dollars and you can't get a card to pay for your SAS and AWS bills?
20 Sales: The Stripe Sales Playbook; Who Should Create It, When Should it Be Done, Where Do Many Go Wrong | How To Identify 10x Sales Hires and How To Structure the Hiring Process in Sales with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Head of Americas Revenue & Growth @ St
- ▶ 35:58 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser You know, our CRO comes from AWS, and I do think that they've been very thoughtful in having a data-driven, you know, well-architected sales process in a consumption-based world, and so I appreciate that.
20VC: Twilio's Jeff Lawson on What It Takes To Create a Tribe, How To Create Anti-Fragile Organisations Through Decentralised Decision-Making and Why Values Are Nice But Principles Are Better
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings And before founding Twilio, Jeff was co-founder and CTO of Ninestar, founding CTO of StubHub.com, co-founder, CEO, and CTO of Versity, and one of the first product managers for Amazon Web Services.
20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- ▶ 6:39 Byron Deeter Even AWS was still in the infancy, and so there weren't a lot of comps or examples to point to here.
- ▶ 11:29 Byron Deeter I absolutely would put Amazon Web Services in this bucket. 3 times in the scene
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Prior to changing the world of community, Linda spent close to three years at Amazon as a senior product manager on AWS and Alexa.
- ▶ 4:41 Linda Lian Secondarily, through all of that work that I was doing in the developer enablement, developer tooling, and open source space, AWS reached out, and they had an opening for someone to help lead product marketing for serverless computing,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:03 Linda Lian And so when I left Amazon, I wanted to bring that learning with me to whatever I started next, and I had a series of conversations with someone who I consider a dear mentor of mine, who's David Richardson, the VP of Serverless at AWS, and,… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- ▶ 13:55 Peter Fenton We needed over time, you know, the move to cloud AWS and Microsoft deployments.
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- ▶ 3:26 Todd McKinnon We had Amazon web services coming out, S three, EC two.
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 20:08 Daniel Levine AWS, massively this way, so that is, like, my one core thesis is software. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- ▶ 34:34 Roelof Botha He's a former executive from Amazon, where he was the CISO, and then he was one of the executives at AWS
20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
- ▶ 6:17 Angela Strange Yeah, the best analogy here is Amazon Web Services, and I remember my first time in venture, and this was more than 15 years ago, there were stories of entrepreneurs going to Fry's Electronics, which is a big electronics store in Palo… 4 times in the scene
20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
- ▶ 20:05 Harry Stebbings I'm certain to you, you said that about the licensing and I think the biggest shift that I've seen with open source is just every provider really trying to move their clients off their own, you know, AWS or whatever onto managed services.
20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo
- ▶ 15:38 Clay Wilkes If you look at Amazon, a great consumer business, AWS, incredible infrastructure provider. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 21:53 unnamed speaker And I think there's something about the PR FAQ process, the press release process that makes it really easy to build things, which are software mediated experiences to a thing you really want, whether it's a movie from prime video or it's…
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 12:21 Gaurav Jain So the cost saving that's come from the shift to, you know, AWS, Twilio, et cetera, it's offset by the increase in labor costs, which is why that number has stayed fairly stable, and we expect that to stay stable in the, in the future.
20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- ▶ 30:48 John Vrionis And so they built a whole product and solution based on their experience around helping companies solve compliance, SOC to compliance initially.
20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- ▶ 29:03 Ilya Sukhar So when we looked at what Facebook was selling us on the stream, which didn't come to fruition, but the dream was build Amazon Web Services, but the Facebook version of it under the Parse brand with the Parse ecosystem as the starting…
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 7:35 Byron Deeter This record acquisition by IBM of Red Hat is really all about Amazon Web Services crushing them in public cloud, them trying to make a play for hybrid cloud more aggressively and essentially draw a buffer line where they can be relevant…
20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- ▶ 25:06 Dylan Field So I think as we've seen better developer tooling, lower costs for cloud services like AWS,
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 9:51 Anjney Midha I think whether that ends up being AWS,
20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- ▶ 6:07 Assaf Wand So building the backend, yeah, I can go to AWS. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 18:35 Dennis Mortensen I think we'll still have a mix of UIs, just like most of my engineers manage all our servers on the command line on AWS, as in they didn't move into other UIs, and certainly my visual UI designers still sit at a big-ass monitor and use a…
20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
- ▶ 5:26 Harry Stebbings If there's kind of the ease of entrepreneurship being Amazon web hosting?
20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal
- ▶ 5:13 Dylan Serota So my aha moment was when I realized that there's actually an incredible opportunity to create a company that could simplify this process by thinking about providing a platform that could take on a lot of the large upfront costs of real…
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 5:27 Glenn Solomon But I think if I think about the last decade, plus the six most important letters that I've seen are iOS, which ushered in really the era of mobile computing, which Apple's iPhone came out in 2007 and AWS where Amazon really ushered in the…
20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
- ▶ 26:41 Jerry Chen Given this VC podcast, I would say that a lot of founders, investors don't think you can beat Amazon's cloud, AWS, but I actually think AWS is very beatable in certain product areas in certain markets, so I'm still bullish in finding… 2 times in the scene
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings As for Lior, prior to Lobb, he spent time in the technical business development team at Amazon Web Services, and before that was a derivatives trader on Wall Street with Citigroup.
- ▶ 3:15 Leore Avidar And back then, I was always tinkering with different tools on the side, and I started playing a lot with Amazon Web Services back then. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
- ▶ 13:42 Andy Pflaum The biggest, I'd say, element of that is, of course, AWS, or the similar services from Google and Microsoft, cloud services, but also the rise of more online services for managing a company.
20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- ▶ 13:51 Olaf Carlson Wee So for example, with Filecoin, you could look at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Dropbox, say, and add that all up and see what's kind of the current addressable market for Filecoin. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
- ▶ 3:13 Jake Flomenberg There was this thing called Amazon Web Services that was taking off, but on the other hand, data, the more I read about it, the more I just felt like, hey, I actually know a little bit about this.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 12:01 Bing Gordon About what become Amazon Web Services, AWS.
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 26:04 Alex Rampell And I sign up for them as a customer, and they're using AWS to store things.
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 7:48 Aaron VanDevender Edges on sports, and sports is cool, so you get a little bit of cachet by association because you're hanging out with baseball players, but, you know, that sort of petered out, and so then they got rebranded as data science, and then as…
20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- ▶ 25:30 John Callaghan Is there anyone at, you know, big company ABC that you want to talk to about AWS or, you know, Google cloud, you know, that kind of thing, right?
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 14:33 Daniel Gross That is to say, to train these models requires a lot of upfront money, much like hosting a website used to before the advent of AWS. 2 times in the scene
20VC: When Should CEOs Ask Their VC For Help, When Do Companies Really Need A Board & What The Series A Expansion Means For Startups with Max Gazor, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 20:49 Harry Stebbings Is AWS hurting enterprise venture opportunities?
20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 17:22 Jason Pressman The product feature set that's become much more popular in the last few years, largely because I think the cost of building software has become so much lower cost because of AWS and open source.
20VC: Why It Is Good Company Funding Has Been Down 6 Quarters In A Row, Why Unanimity Does Not Work In VC Decision-Making & Why It Is Dangerous To Be A Spreadsheet Investor with Scott Raney, Partner @ Redpoint Ventures
- ▶ 4:54 Scott Raney And 2006, 2007, we saw the launch of AWS and cloud computing, which has had an enormous transformative effect on the cost of starting companies and getting companies off the ground, and also has opened up an incredible set of opportunities…
20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software
20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- ▶ 11:44 John Borthwick A consequence of the amount of infrastructure that we have today in place, and talk about everything from technical infrastructure, AWS, et cetera, et cetera, to capital infrastructure, to startup infrastructure, to startup hubs like in…
- ▶ 28:41 John Borthwick You know, for many years, primarily as a merchant, as a, um, you know, shopping site, and then I've developed a lot of respect for what he built at AWS, and now, you know, looking forward to, you know, what he's doing with Alexa, and, you…
20VC: Preparing For The Next Big Trend, Why Conversational Will Be The Next Big Thing & How Entrepreneurs Should View Market Size with Sarah Guo @ Greylock Partners
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 16:15 Josh Stein So Twilio is very similar to Amazon web services. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha
- ▶ 18:45 Scott Dorsey And actually with AWS and all the cloud platforms today, you have an opportunity to drive gross margins, you know, to, to really new levels.
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 10:10 Chris Farmer And then around oh eight seed investing started to institutionalize driven by capital efficiencies from open source and cloud computing platforms like AWS and the distribution channels like the app stores and social networks.
20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- ▶ 27:55 Moisey Uretsky You know, I look at the companies that took 20 years to get to that billions in revenue, or even AWS itself took, you know, close to a decade to get to ten billion in revenue.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 3:40 Mike Maples Search engine marketing, and, you know, universal broadband connectivity, and ultimately later, things like Amazon Web Services, the cost of starting a company went way down.
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 9:53 Justin Kan Because of the various things like AWS, I'd say greater dissemination of programming knowledge and lighter weight, uh, you know, programming interfaces and frameworks, as well as cheaper distribution through things like the app store, um,…
20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise
- ▶ 8:34 Hiten Shah And now, because of Amazon Web Services, and the seed funding craze, I guess, you know, if you want to call it that, and all these other things, it's like, you can get really far before you even raise a lot of money, or any money at all,…
20 VC 095: How VCs Find Startups and How To Add Value Once Invested with David Teten @ ff Venture Capital
- ▶ 21:43 David Teten So I'm a little skeptical of them on their traditional side, but that said, on the Amazon Web Services side and other parts of their business, I think they've got great customer lock-in and a very powerful position.
20 VC 092: The Repeatable Playbook of SaaS with Ed Sim, Founding Partner @ BoldStart Ventures
- ▶ 4:10 Ed Sim And another, uh, GoToMeeting founder, uh, started a company called RightScale, which was kind of a management software cloud layer for AWS and other platforms.
- ▶ 7:03 Ed Sim And, and so, if you eliminate that cost, if you can take a great engineer who understands market pain, um, they can leverage kind of that AWS infrastructure, they can get to market very fast and efficiently.
20 VC 075: Y COMBINATOR WEEK: Kirsty Nathoo, CFO @ Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:43 Kirsty Nathoo AWS hosting bill is obviously a business expense, but then there's this gray area of things that
20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado
- ▶ 12:47 Mattias Ljungman So putting in payment systems, putting in, you know, cloud services so you don't have to have your own servers, and launching it in, you know, AWS allows you to just stick your finger in, uh, toe in the water, uh, when you're entering new…
← previous page 2 of 2 · 100 scenes per page · newest episode first