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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 13:57 Ben Horowitz So like, you know, as a matter of fact, you know, Spotify, Apple music, Amazon music, I'll have the catalog today.
Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
- ▶ 11:20 David Baszucki You know, ultimately, whether it's Amazon or Netflix or TikTok or YouTube, I think for us the difficult discovery problem is you're trying to optimize tenure enterprise value along with your stock price every year that you get there.
AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 11:43 Ben Horowitz It'll be like AWS GCP, you know, Azure.
The Economic Case for Generative AI with a16z's Martin Casado
- ▶ 13:22 Martin Casado Like, nobody predicted Amazon.
Living Up the Promise of A True Second Brain with Nat Eliason
- ▶ 5:18 Nat Eliason Like taking notes from the books that I'm reading, and so I used to do this on Kindle and now I do it on physical books and use Readwise to extract the highlights, but the medium that I organize those highlights in doesn't seem to matter…
AI Hardware, Explained.
- ▶ 8:00 Guido Appenzeller And, uh, Amazon has a chip called Tranium for training and Inferencia for, for inference.
Why 50% of Every Dollar Billed Is Lost In Healthcare
- ▶ 5:59 Florian Otto I mean, it's the same when you shop on Amazon, they get you to check out the shopping cart in a nice way.
Ben Horowitz on Executive Firing (and Hiring)
- ▶ 27:05 Ali Ghodsi Don't want to hear about Amazon anymore, and don't bring that... 3 times in the scene
Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
- ▶ 0:33 unnamed speaker or runs on AWS or Heroku, there will be a whole host of ways that companies differentiate as they look to cleverly embed AI.
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 13:01 Salim Ismail Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon all successfully became platforms, and that business model basically carries you through because now you wire yourself into the infrastructure.
- ▶ 24:48 Salim Ismail Uh, essentially leveraging assets that you don't own become the cloud computing was probably the most, uh, relevant here in the kind of we considered the birth of an EXO when Amazon Web Services launched, because now you can take computing…
- ▶ 30:04 Peter Diamandis He was the chief product officer at Uber and at Amazon and talked about this experimentation engine that they built called Morpheus back then and teaching your team how to run experiments. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:28 Peter Diamandis And if you have something that's extraordinary, open source it to share the cost of the operations is what Amazon did with their cloud services, which was so brilliant.
Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 9:10 Connie Chan People say a lot of the Chinese cross border, Amazon sellers are now all on Etsy. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:48 Connie Chan What about a marketplace like Amazon? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:09 Connie Chan And that drives things like Prime that unlocks a bunch of other stuff.
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 0:00 Steph Smith If you pick up your phone, I guarantee you'll see a bunch of marketplace companies, whether it be Airbnb, Uber, DoorDash, or Amazon.
- ▶ 11:57 Connie Chan When we go on Amazon, we all go to the search bar, but that's not how we shop in real life.
- ▶ 13:07 Zach Cohen If you kind of look historically at marketplaces, you kind of see that wave one, you're talking about the Amazon and Ebays, which were all about quantity and supply gathering.
- ▶ 16:35 Olivia Moore I would say the other amazing thing we're seeing as a result of, like, the new layers of trust and safety on these curated marketplaces is that they're bringing online suppliers who would never have listed on a marketplace before because… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:44 Connie Chan And I mean, some of you are too young to remember this, but like Amazon is, is ultimately one of the best examples of this, right? 2 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 47:32 Vijay Pande Imagine Amazon a visa, but of healthcare. 2 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 9:00 Connie Chan But does that happen when you shop on Amazon?
Rearchitecting the Supply Chain with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 6:47 Das Rush Ok, so, you know, kind of from that initial expansion, you've kind of reached this point now where you are like a global logistics company, and I've heard you refer to Amazon as kind of, you know, this company you really admire for how… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:34 Das Rush You know, you've mentioned, like, the, the admiration that you have for Amazon, um, and really, you know, nobody epitomizes the rise of, like, e-commerce more.
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 42:59 Chris Power It would be like, you know, AWS not having a dashboard of like, what's your, what's your like SLA uptime, which is insane.
- ▶ 43:37 Steph Smith Like even if you talk about like ordering from Amazon, people have come to expect my package is going to arrive on this date.
- ▶ 46:58 Chris Power So, you know, the example I would give is like, you know, if you're a backend software engineer and like, you weren't really sure whether you could spin up a new, like, uh, EC two instance or not,
- ▶ 1:08:16 Chris Power You know, know about AWS, not really like outside of our technology domain, but like can any of the stuff that they love exist without it?
- ▶ 1:10:09 Chris Power So the analogy I use is for software engineering, we have so many incredible software engineers and software products that, and that is downstream of companies like Stripe or Twilio or Amazon, because they lowered the barrier to entry for…
- ▶ 1:11:44 Chris Power We automate this so much that it's basically like flicking the switch on AWS and spinning up a new, you know, like East coast instance and starting to tool around with something.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 37:46 Steph Smith Another example of a network, uh, utilizing some degree of force is Amazon HQ too.
- ▶ 1:24:32 Balaji Srinivasan Or Amazon with HQ two.
- ▶ 1:24:32 Balaji Srinivasan Or Amazon with HQ two.
- ▶ 1:29:29 Balaji Srinivasan Another way of doing it, which is actually not thought of as such, but it's really important, is a cloud-based international regulator like Amazon, eBay, actually even Gmail, Apple, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:15:14 Balaji Srinivasan Try and become Amazon.
- ▶ 2:32:58 Balaji Srinivasan So you have Larry Page in Google, you have Zuckerberg in Facebook, you have Steve Jobs in Apple, you have Bill Gates in Microsoft, you have Jeff Bezos in Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:51:51 Balaji Srinivasan And you can also get it on Kindle.
Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare - a Founder's Playbook
- ▶ 7:03 Vineeta Agarwala Despite privacy concerns about healthcare data, many, many providers, hospitals, clinics, labs, EHR vendors, all that data is actually living in Google Cloud or on AWS rather than on an on-prem server, you know, in the basement of your…
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
- ▶ 2:53 Angela Strange Very similar to what Amazon did for compute and storage.
NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)
- ▶ 1:18 Devin Finzer So you can think of us kind of like eBay or Amazon, a one-stop shop where you can go buy, sell, discover new NFT projects.
Healthcare Has Left the Building
- ▶ 11:52 unnamed speaker We've seen Amazon acquire PillPack, so your medicine is more likely to get drop shipped to you in the near future than you get in your car and going to pick it up.
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 19:23 John Riccitiello Amazon's got a massive business on Twitch, which is allowing you to watch other people play video games.
- ▶ 29:30 Andrew Chen And so, you know, one of the things that, that obviously we've seen with Netflix, Hulu, um, you know, and Amazon is how much money they've put into content. 2 times in the scene
Four Trends in Consumer Tech
- ▶ 13:15 Connie Chan So they're already working with AWS so that anyone who buys this course is gonna get a thousand dollars of free credits for AWS.
Any Company Can Offer Financial Services
- ▶ 4:23 Angela Strange Amazon Web Services brought all of this infrastructure as a service. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:45 Angela Strange But what if in the same way Amazon did to compute and storage, there were companies that were taking each layer of this stack and providing it as a service?
Food, Drugs, and Tech: 100 years of Public Health
- ▶ 15:24 Vijay Pande and she was finding that you could get kits off of Amazon to do DIY CRISPR and that she could make our dog glow in the dark.
- ▶ 21:18 Vijay Pande So, you know, getting back to this genie out of the bottle, the fact that you can get these crisps or kits, you know, on Amazon, uh, and actually literally you can YouTube this.
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 27:37 Frank Chen If you think about what we want out of a smart coach that we're not getting from Alexa today, it's the ability to understand us much better and answer much higher level questions.
- ▶ 34:58 Frank Chen So exactly the same thing that's in Alexa today.
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 20:49 Chris Dixon You have, you can rent a computer at AWS, and that's kind of like your office, right?
- ▶ 27:13 Chris Dixon Like, if it wasn't for the work that Salesforce and AWS did, you couldn't have stored all that data so cheaply.
- ▶ 29:20 Chris Dixon The technology's still, like, all these things, like, even the, you know, I mean, like, Lex is awesome, but, like, you know, autocorrect breaks half the time.
Scaling Creativity with Marc Andreessen and Shonda Rimes
- ▶ 29:49 Shonda Rhimes I think it was Amazon that made the 30 minute show, Homecoming, which was, there was a drama, but it was 30 minutes, and it was really interesting, and people stayed riveted. 2 times in the scene
Decentralized Applications: What's Now, What's Next
- ▶ 12:47 Arianna Simpson Why should we be paying a centralized intermediary like AWS when we could actually be using one another's resources? 2 times in the scene
Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins
- ▶ 0:43 Sep Kamvar And the reason for that was that there are stores everywhere in Tokyo, and so it doesn't make sense to go to Amazon to buy a pair of shoes when there's 10 shoe stores on your street.
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 10:26 Chris Dixon It's 90% plus of the computers in the world, every data center, AWS, Android phones, uh, open source is a very similar governance model, so just, if this sounds really utopian, just, I would just say, like, it's really, like, how 90% of…
- ▶ 13:45 Chris Dixon The, the key input to any kind of artificial intelligence algorithm, like if you're trying to create like an Alexa speaker kind of thing, uh, or a self-driving car, um, the algorithms are more or less out there, public domain. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:00 Chris Dixon So that's why every time you speak to your Alexa, you're basically for free providing Amazon with training data.
The Economics of Term Sheets
- ▶ 0:18 Scott Kupor What we're going to talk about today is term sheets, and the genesis of this is I have a book coming out June fourth, which you're welcome to pre-order, of course, on Amazon, and the purpose of the book is really to demystify the venture…
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 3:53 Justin Kan Uh, my co-founder Emmett was the CEO of the company, uh, and eventually sold it to Amazon for nine hundred seventy million dollars in 2014, about five years ago.
- ▶ 47:18 Justin Kan You know, like if you look at the, let's say any sort of like the Amazon share price or like market cap over time, right? 2 times in the scene
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 25:36 Olaf Carlson-Wee Um, is, is, if, if there was like an intranet and Microsoft owned it, like Microsoft MSN and Microsoft Net back in the day, we would never have seen Amazon, Google, and, and all these companies grow like they have.
- ▶ 26:55 Chris Dixon The goodwill or this financial interest of somebody to actually run the code, and that, and that's of course where AWS and Google Cloud stepped in.
- ▶ 44:49 Olaf Carlson-Wee And so, um, anything today that's sort of a one-to-one service, um, with, for example, in the case of Filecoin, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, whatever,
- ▶ 45:25 Chris Dixon Does it live in Google and Amazon servers?
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 7:58 Steven Sinofsky So like today, we all say thank you to Siri and Alexa, not even thinking about it.
- ▶ 1:02:54 Steven Sinofsky And then Amazon was kind of new to a lot of people still. 2 times in the scene
Towards a Decentralized Storage Network for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 1:06 Ben Fish Well, decentralized storage is about taking all the storage we have today, the massive amounts of storage we have today, sitting in centralized cloud centers, right, like Amazon or Google, and distributing, distributing it across the…
- ▶ 3:44 Ali Yahya Like, it could be, yes, there's an economic argument you want to, you want to get to that storage, but is it really that much cheaper than the kind of storage you can get on Amazon S III?
- ▶ 3:58 Ben Fish If you have Amazon in charge of all the storage, then maybe Amazon is not intending to censor 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:49 Ben Fish Um, and the way things work today with centralized storage are you, you know the company that you're giving your data to, the company has a reputation, uh, say Amazon, right? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:00 Ben Fish Um, you could possibly pay other nodes to check that other nodes are storing your files, but then it starts to look a bit more like, uh, Amazon again, say.
- ▶ 41:05 Ali Yahya If I, if I say I am Amazon and I have an enormous amount of storage available, ah, that I could choose to just sort of deploy to attack the decentralized storage network, then I could presumably do that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:31 Ben Fish You know, it's easy to get carried away and say that, oh, proof of replication, well, it's inconvenient for Amazon to do this, so, uh, so there is some barrier to entry, but, um, it doesn't require ASIC, so anybody can participate. 8 times in the scene
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
The Future of Decision-Making: 3 Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 28:29 Frank Chen If you are a retailer, Amazon has scared the bejesus out of you, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 16:23 Benedict Evans And so there is a, you know, just as everything Amazon adds to Prime keeps you from cancelling your Prime account, and that drives every, drives all of your purchases through Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:23 Benedict Evans And so there is a, you know, just as everything Amazon adds to Prime keeps you from cancelling your Prime account, and that drives every, drives all of your purchases through Amazon.
Network Effects: Categories & Debates (2 of 3)
- ▶ 6:34 unnamed speaker So if you think, you know, Amazon is a two-sided e-commerce marketplace, but they've used their scale to build out this logistics infrastructure, which is now, it's not a network effect, but it's attached to a network effect business and…
3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
- ▶ 40:46 Alex Rampell Um, and this is what I think Amazon got right in an era where everybody else got this wrong. 6 times in the scene
Security Markets: The Lay of the Land
- ▶ 3:52 unnamed speaker There's one company that I heard of that checked their credentials for AWS into their GitHub repo on accident, mistake that people make. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:03 unnamed speaker There was a hosting provider that had a breach of their data that was caused by an, it was actually an AWS salesperson, had misconfigured the permissions on their S three bucket and had a bunch of customer
- ▶ 5:18 unnamed speaker And this was an Amazon employee. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 unnamed speaker The fact that Amazon holds your data, the fact that Google holds your data, Box, Dropbox, means that they have liability for that information, and that's changing the way that liability discussions in cyber insurance happen.
What’s with All the Bio M&A in 2019?: A Quick Take
- ▶ 6:21 Frank Chen Talk to me more about platforms, because especially for our software viewers, platforms mean something like Linux, or the Win-Thirty-Two API, or these days AWS.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 26:14 Sonal Chokshi And what I love about what you're describing, and this is capitalism, it's funny because we might as well say cloud is capitalism at this point to make that syllogism, but it is the AWS moment in this ecosystem and it's talking about the…
- ▶ 26:39 Qasar Younis So the AWS example is exactly right. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 0:28 Sonal Chokshi Joining us to have this conversation, we have ASICS and C general partner, Jeff Jordan, who's written a lot about competing with Amazon and the future of e-commerce and marketplaces, and has been on the front lines of this area, both as an…
- ▶ 2:28 Jeff Jordan It's actually a derivative of Amazon, unfortunately. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:08 Ryan Caldbeck You're competing with Amazon to a point that Jeff made earlier.
- ▶ 33:31 Ryan Caldbeck So I see a brand on Amazon.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- ▶ 22:27 Joel Monegro We have, uh, the, the big tech companies of today, Google, uh, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and so on.
- ▶ 24:58 Dennis Nazarov We can compare the foundational layer of a blockchain smart contract platform and decentralized applications being built on top of it to general cloud computing infrastructure, you know, such as Azure or Google Cloud or Amazon AWS.
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 1:50 Benedict Evans oh wow, Google's having a really big push in everything has got Google Assistant in this year, or everything has Alexa in, or oh wow, everyone's doing curved screens.
- ▶ 6:00 Steven Sinofsky And so what you see is the evolution where they're, they're finally looking at like what Apple does with packaging and what Amazon does with packaging to bring it to sort of everyone else.
- ▶ 24:18 Benedict Evans And that's where we're seeing, like, the connective tissue emerging, which is the Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple relaunching HomeKit. 2 times in the scene