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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 16:52 Bill Gurley I think a good example, I'd say, is Keith Raboy with things like Open Door, his current roll-up of Amazon stores or Shopify stores.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Having started his career with a seven-year stint at Amazon with a focus on product, he then joined Hulu, leading the product design, editorial, and market
- ▶ 4:11 Eugene Wei I didn't really have any specific qualifications for a lot of the jobs listed, but Amazon was definitely one that was on my list. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:04 Eugene Wei Canonical example that everybody in tech loves to use is Amazon with its six-page memos. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:54 Eugene Wei You know, I learned a lot of this early in my career at Amazon, just studying Jeff Bezos.
20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu
- ▶ 16:56 Andy Johns So for example, to interview me for a growth role at Amazon, and you said, Andy, here's a pen, and here's a whiteboard. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats
20VC: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo on Why You Need Sponsors Not Mentors, Where Management Skills Align with Good Parenting & The First 100 Days as CEO at Instacart; The Challenges, The Surprises and The Next Chapter
- ▶ 34:52 Fidji Simo And I think it means that we will have helped our retail partners really compete against Amazon and we'll have
20VC: The Rise of Quick Commerce and Why CPGs ARe Misaligned Being Powered By Ad Spend, The 5 Core Components Consumers Care About When Ordering Today & Why Amazon and Alibaba Will Not Be The Big Players in 10 Years with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR
- ▶ 10:58 Ralf Wenzel Significant bulk amounts of certain items, and if you look into the inventory losses and the wastage costs of the likes of Walmart, or even an Amazon, or like normal supermarket chain, it's in the trillions of how much they're losing on a…
- ▶ 19:19 Ralf Wenzel So that's why like the pure existence of Joker next to an Amazon and Instacart and other companies will make it a success because there's a big wave of consumer activities coming from offline to online.
- ▶ 34:21 Ralf Wenzel I think in 10 years from now, Amazon and Alibaba will not be the biggest e-commerce companies anymore. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Getir Founder, Nazim Salur on The Future of Last Mile Convenience, Who Will Win? Lessons on Driver Acquisition and Efficiency, Zone Maturity and Time To Profitability and Scaling to 300 Cities in the US in 2022
- ▶ 11:20 Nazim Salur So, but Amazon was early and they own the market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:20 Nazim Salur Look, Amazon, such a great company, they're not all around the world. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 Harry Stebbings So that was going to be my next question, which was, we mentioned Amazon not being all over the world, you know, get here, have the chance to expand anywhere in the world, which is so exciting.
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- ▶ 18:34 Marcelo Claure So, you know, we like to try different things, you know, the digital transformation of Televisa Univision to create the company that's going to find Netflix and Amazon Prime in Spanish, you know, so we get excited not only about investing,…
- ▶ 22:44 Marcelo Claure For some companies with an immense opportunity, think of Alibaba, think of Facebook, think of Google, think of Amazon, whatever, it was worth coming in at almost any price.
20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures
- ▶ 4:23 Nicolas Szekasy We brought eBay as an investor, and as a reminder, eBay in 2002 1001 was the equivalent of Amazon in 2021.
20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have
- ▶ 2:41 Jeff Immelt Yeah, so, you know, a lot of people have forgotten about it, but back in the year, 2000, GE felt a lot like Amazon.
- ▶ 7:17 Jeff Immelt And we tried to build, it wasn't like you could, in those days, you know, Microsoft or Salesforce or Amazon, nobody was really playing in that space, in the big data, AI space.
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- ▶ 28:44 David George I have not, but it is downloaded on my Kindle.
20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
- ▶ 15:34 Nick Mehta Eventually, Amazon will be gone, right?
20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Quincy, which sold to Amazon in 2011 for five hundred and fifty million dollars, and then as an investor, Mark announced his new venture firm, Vision Capital People, with his co-founder, Alex Rodriguez, earlier this year, with fifty…
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: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
- ▶ 17:33 Harry Stebbings Because, you know, when you look at Amazon today, that paid search is a huge business for them.
- ▶ 28:32 Rafael Ilishayev Amazon's taught us anything, right?
- ▶ 31:58 Rafael Ilishayev He's the former head of global operations at Amazon, one of the best operators on the planet. 2 times in the scene
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: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
- ▶ 15:30 Ryan Smith I think we got it from Amazon back in the day.
20VC: MercadoLibre Founder Marcos Galperin on Optimising Decision-Making, Effective Resource Allocation, Growth vs Profitability, Fundraising Strategies and more on the Journey To Build a $72Bn Market Cap Company
- ▶ 24:27 Marcos Galperin I think eBay's media category was bigger than Amazon's GMV. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 24:08 Peter Reinhardt Most recently, a book that I read by accident because it happened to be in the shared Kindle library with my mom, which is The Chalice and the Blade.
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- ▶ 15:57 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, when you look at the kind of company landscape today and look at companies that you maybe borrow from most, aspire to most, respect most in terms of, like, you know, behaviors, org structures, design, you know, like mine would… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel on The Scaling Journey to a $26Bn Market Cap, The Challenges in Moving From Single To Multi-Product Company & How To Scale Efficiently into $M+ Enterprise Deals
- ▶ 10:11 Olivier Pomel Used to be these were completely different universes, but today when you go by infrastructure from Amazon, for example, like, it's the same menu for everyone.
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 7:14 Harry Stebbings You mentioned the time at Amazon there being so impactful, and you worked with some incredible people from, you know, David Richardson, Jeff Wiener, some of the best. 7 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: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 33:00 Jeremy Levine And so from the first generation, Amazon was still around in 2010.
20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
- ▶ 23:16 Simon Borrero It looks a lot more like Amazon than Google.
- ▶ 26:18 Simon Borrero I think it's a super competitive industry, the one that Amazon is in, and I just read his new book, Invent and Wonder, and it's pure wisdom in every single page, so that guy is impressive, and then in terms of human beings, my grandma,
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
- ▶ 19:27 Sebastian Siemiatkowski And we decided to get inspired by Netflix and Amazon, a couple of other companies.
20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- ▶ 10:34 Patrick Spence So I put that into place, you know, and use that lesson at Sonos when Amazon and Google and some of the other companies came out with smart speakers into our space with voice speakers.
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.
- ▶ 3:26 Todd McKinnon We had Amazon web services coming out, S three, EC two.
- ▶ 3:26 Todd McKinnon We had Amazon web services coming out, S three, EC two.
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- ▶ 15:36 Michael Eisenberg But now people look at Amazon and go, whoa, 30 years plus some boom and busts in the middle.
20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
- ▶ 10:04 Ilkka Paananen and then you even, even disagree with what the team is doing, and that's the ultimate test of do you really trust, you know, that team, and at Supercell, we've kind of borrowed this phrase, I think it's from Amazon, where they use this…
20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Prior to the world of venture, Alfred was chairman and COO at Zappos for six years, leading to their acquisition by Amazon.
- ▶ 22:56 Alfred Lin You know, when I was at Amazon and at Zappos, we always talked about the difference between input metrics and output metrics.
- ▶ 32:12 Alfred Lin Amazon has this thing where they write this press release about the success of this beta product that they're about to launch.
20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 15:54 Andrew Dudum And I think as a result, the public markets have really craved growth, efficiency, innovation, and it's just not there, which is why you see all of the money going towards Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, Google, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 10:46 Josh Silverman The more the world centers on Amazon, the more we desperately desire an alternative to Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:21 Josh Silverman I think Amazon will continue to be the default for everyone in the Western world, and the more the world has a default, the more it yearns for an antidote. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 8:50 Bill Gurley Now, the flip side of it is we've seen companies like Amazon who for 10 years were doubted as if they'd ever be profitable, and now they're spitting off massive cash flow. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:52 Howard Marks And then the other thing is great tech companies like Amazon and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:57 Bill Gurley I think one of the things that happens because of what Howard said about the success of whether it's Facebook or Google or Amazon, the winners in tech compound quite a bit.