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Teten: Sell Amazon Stock Due to Weak Retail Pricing Power
“I would probably sell On the grounds that, ah, it's not clear to me if when they eventually turn on the monetization spigot, ah, it will be impossible for other people to compete with them. In other words, the whole theory of Amazon, not unlike a lot of early-…”
Weitzman: Renting an H100 GPU costs 1.5 times more than buying it
“If I was to buy an H 100 for, let's say, 30,000 dollars, that's how much the, kind of, a single card would cost. If I wanted to rent an H 100 for one hour spot instance from GCP, it could cost me five dollars. If I rented it from, like, You know, Azure or AWS,…”
O'Driscoll: Owning developers is 100% existential for Microsoft
“I don't think owning the developer is existential for AWS. I definitely don't think it's existential for Meta. It's a hundred percent existential over the medium term for Microsoft.”
Renting pure GPU compute offers low value without software orchestration
“If you're just like a server renter, if it's just a GPU server rack renter, if you're just leasing into different companies on certain hourly pricing rates, there's not a lot of value. You have to actually build some software on top.”
Midha: Sovereign data needs open cloud market to startups after 15 years
“Because the context, the mission-critical context of those workloads is so important to be run locally that you can't run them on Amazon, AWS, GCP, or Azure, and it's the first time In 15 years that the sort of hyperscaler dominance is up for grabs for startup…”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic reports gross AWS revenue; OpenAI reports net Microsoft revenue
“There was this kind of whole meme of OpenAI reports net on their partner revenue and Entropic reports gross. And what they're saying there is if OpenAI sells through Microsoft and Microsoft takes some money off the top, OpenAI only reports the net amount. If A…”
Fitzpatrick: AWS report shows 70% of AI agents are traditional automation scripts
“There was actually a report AWS came out with today, it's interesting, that like, 70% of agents are actually not even, ah, AI agents, as you think of it. Like, most of the agent, agentic processes today are actually traditional script writing and just traditio…”
Independent AI apps will thrive despite foundation models building competing products
“It's sort of like how AWS and the cloud, you know, have service offerings for basically everything that, that you could possibly have. And yet there's still tons of infrastructure companies that are independent.”
O'Driscoll: AWS lost cloud dominance by failing to adapt to AI
“Five years ago, AWS dominated cloud compute. Now they don't, right? Because cloud compute evolved from being simple compute to being AI-centric computing, and they didn't evolve fast enough with it.”
Fanton: OpenAI Will Combine iOS And AWS To Dominate Tech Infrastructure
“I'm a huge believer in OpenAI would be massive, personally, because I think it's full stack. You have B to C. It's a very, very powerful combination. And it will be both now, right? It will be iOS plus Amazon Web Services. So everybody will depend on that plat…”
Traynor: AI infrastructure will consolidate into 3-4 providers in direct price competition
“There'll probably be three or four big providers is my guest, probably GCP, AWS, maybe open AI directly. And I'm sure Azure, that's how I think that that layer will play out. And they'll end up in direct price competition with each other.”
Seibert: OpenAI will evolve into an infrastructure platform like AWS
“I view OpenAI probably evolving more into an infrastructure company like AWS.”
Des Traynor: AI infrastructure will consolidate into 3-4 price-competing providers
“They'll probably be three or four big providers is my guess. You'll be probably GCP, AWS, maybe OpenAI directly, and I'm sure Azure. That's how I think that layer will play out, and they'll end up in pretty direct price competition with each other.”
Bouaziz: ClickHouse can build an iconic business competing with AWS
“ClickHouse is led by Aaron Katz. He's a savage in every way. He's really, really good. You should probably talk to him. They are, I think they can build an iconic company that can properly compete with AWS.”
Jain: Cloud cost savings are offset by rising startup labor costs
“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 future.”
IBM acquired Red Hat because AWS was crushing them in public cloud
“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 and aspirationally they…”
O'Driscoll: Cerebras recently signed deals with OpenAI and AWS
“And in the last three months, they've signed a deal with OpenAI and a deal with Atropic. Sorry, no, a deal with OpenAI and a deal with AWS. Sorry, I should be precise, right?”
Acharya: AI foundation and app markets resemble AWS and GCP, not Uber
“I think the foundation model companies look a little bit like that. And I think in the apps layer, you're just going to have people that want to Consume the code they generate through a rich IDE and those that want to be closer to the metal, and that's probabl…”
Rory O'Driscoll: Anthropic plans to build its own physical data centers
“Kind of, you didn't mention it, but in the same announcement, I think, Anthropic also said they're going to break ground on a physical data center. So that's another one of the model companies saying it's not enough to rely on compute from your service provide…”
Byron Deeter: AWS is the best business in software history
“And by the way, the best business in the history of software is sitting there with AWS in, in what people refer to as a commodity.”
Cahn: The $250B Cloud Infrastructure Market Equals the Entire SaaS Sector
“This cloud business today is a two hundred and fifty billion dollar business. So the cloud business today is the same size as the SaaS sector. That's the business that Azure, Google and AWS control is the same size as the entire SaaS sector.”
Aaron Levie: AI agents will lower startup barriers like AWS and Stripe
“If Shopify caused businesses to get started because it lowered the barrier to being able to sell online, if AWS caused applications to get started because I was like, oh, I could just build an app and run it in the cloud. I don't have to think about servers an…”
Gonto: Amazon would never have launched AWS without trying the Fire phone
“And if they weren't willing to try Kindle phone, they would never be willing to try AWS.”
Tunguz: Top 3 cloud providers equal top 100 apps in market cap
“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 Just for the cloud businesses. And then if you take the top 100 publicly traded cloud companies, both on B to C and B…”
Clark: Jeff Bezos excels at context shifting and focusing on critical 10%
“He is one of the best simplifiers, if not the best simplifiers I've ever met, which is he can context shift incredibly well. 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 in the…”
Guo: Startup launch costs have dropped, but scaling costs have risen
“The cost to start one that really matters has come down dramatically in many areas, right? AWS increased seed capital, a cultural shift where it's okay to drop out of school and start a company, three D printing, a bigger sort of supportive ecosystem, you name…”
Randle: AWS would be worth $1 trillion if spun out of Amazon
“Which is why it's such an unbelievably large business, probably a trillion dollar business if it was spun out of Amazon.”
AWS waited until $100B in revenue to fully verticalize its sales org
“AWS just moved to verticals right across the whole organization and they're a hundred billion.”
Casado: Early AWS Had Far More Market Dominance Than Anthropic Does Today
“AWS was like, 70 or 80% market share early on. Nobody thought they could ever catch up to them. You know, they were the massive market leaders that created the category. I mean, they had way more dominance than Anthropic has now.”
Khan: The top three cloud providers were created by public companies
“AWS was created by a public market company, the entire cloud business. You know, the three biggest cloud providers were public company when they started it.”
Rauch: Startups competing with incumbents like AWS must offer simplification
“And certainly if you're trying to compete with them, you're not going to replicate their approach. You're going to try to bring a simplification to the market.”
Tunguz: Web2 cloud infrastructure and application layers both have $2.1T market cap
“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 cap just for the cloud businesses. And then if you take the top 100 publicly traded cloud companies, both on B to …”
Dubugras: Startups with $5M in funding couldn't get corporate cards in 2017
“Startups had to raise a lot of money and couldn't get a corporate credit card. 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?”
Shah: AWS and modern tools eliminated the $1M upfront cost to build software
“Founders used to be able to raise money just by having a deck. And the reason is, it was much harder to build stuff. Harder meaning it took more resources, more money. So you needed actual Like a million dollars just to get your servers going, and get the prod…”
Tomasz Tunguz: Web2 cloud infra and top 100 apps share equal market caps
“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 cap just for the cloud businesses. And then if you take the top 100 publicly traded cloud companies, both on B to …”
Mike Shebat: Traba will become the AWS of labor for global supply chains
“I'm the CEO of a company called Trava, and we're a labor marketplace that connects workers with open shifts in the light industrial industry, and our mission is to empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. So what that…”
Grosser: AWS built a best-in-class data-driven sales process for consumption models
“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”
Gordon: Amazon AWS, Kindle, and Prime were shaped in key board meetings
“I remember the board meeting on Amazon where we first talked About what become Amazon Web Services, AWS. I remember the first time, I remember a series of meetings that led to the presentation of Kindle. I remember a series of meetings that led to the presenta…”
Oren Zeev: Houzz's only expense at investment was $1,500 AWS hosting
“And their only cost when I met them was 1500 dollar Hosting costs at, you know, for AWS, because they already had users, and already had, like, initial traction”
Linda Lian: AWS launched its developer community programs around 2017
“This was around 2017 when we really started building all of the developer community engagement programs that AWS still has today, including our developer Slack, our Reddit engagement, our Stack Overflow engagement, open sourcing product roadmaps on GitHub.”