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a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 28:11 Steven Sinofsky So then enters Alexa. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:00 Benedict Evans Amazon gave this number that there's a hundred million devices out there with Alexa on them. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:18 Benedict Evans Are people more loyal to Prime with that?
- ▶ 37:24 Steven Sinofsky Like I, I saw a bed that you could talk to Alexa via.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 5:22 Frank Chen and I are addicted to Amazon Prime, apparently, and increasingly addicted to the same day delivery service.
- ▶ 5:30 Frank Chen Amazon's had to build distribution centers closer and closer to their house, and they've populated these distribution centers with hundreds of thousands of robots. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 23:46 Marc Andreessen A bunch of the big, I mean, Netflix being, you know, Netflix sort of, you know, sort of setting a new model, but now being, you know, replicated by other companies, Amazon being the most notable example.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 10:15 Chris Dixon And then you talk about a bunch of interesting companies, obviously sort of the iconic companies, I guess, Netscape, Yahoo, Google, eBay, Amazon.
- ▶ 10:23 Chris Dixon eBay is an interesting one because I think of the, you know, well, they're all interesting, but obviously Google and Amazon are wildly powerful companies today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:12 Brian McCullough A little bit, but, um, not in, not in the way that Microsoft could have, Microsoft could still have bought Amazon when it was a five dollar stock, you know, and like, so maybe are we structurally in a situation where the danger is, is that… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:53 Chris Dixon Well, and look, Amazon too, like you have some great new, you know, Etsy comes along and then Amazon launches, I don't know how well it's done, but Amazon homemade or whatever, you know, Instagram comes along and they launch it, you know,…
- ▶ 37:53 Chris Dixon Well, and look, Amazon too, like you have some great new, you know, Etsy comes along and then Amazon launches, I don't know how well it's done, but Amazon homemade or whatever, you know, Instagram comes along and they launch it, you know,…
- ▶ 44:12 Brian McCullough But once he proved it, so like run it, starting with books and running Amazon was almost like this test that he was running to himself.
a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
- ▶ 22:01 Marc Andreessen Right, and it's spectacular across, across the streaming platforms, Netflix, all these, Amazon, and then HBO, and even the broadcast networks are up in their game, and like, everybody's got this spectacular content, and it's this massive…
a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
- ▶ 17:01 Dave Turetsky And so that's happening more quickly with speech recognition because of the proliferation of speech recognition applications, Alexa and phones and so on.
- ▶ 29:43 Boris Soffman We're releasing Alexa integration in December, which is going to be the first time you truly have 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:31 Boris Soffman Alexa and some of these voice assistants trying to integrate with the rest of your life.
a16z Podcast | Automation + Work, Human + Machine
- ▶ 20:03 unnamed speaker Think about Amazon Go and what they do with retail and how they introduce the capability.
a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game
- ▶ 10:40 Zach Wiener You know, the last time most of the big rights deals were up, you didn't have Facebook and Amazon and Apple bidding for them, and then you also have new rights categories.
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 10:05 Sonal Chokshi Because of all the systems that we have available to us, you know, AWS, all these different things where you can essentially prototype in the cloud.
a16z Podcast | New Upstarts in an Old Industry
- ▶ 18:28 Ben Horowitz So, like, an easy example is, like, Amazon's got this culture of frugality, because it's so important to them to be the low-cost provider. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:38 Michael Ovitz Amazon seems very committed. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 3:27 Fred Wilson We're looking at ours in Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, you know, they have these massive entrenched, um, platforms, and
- ▶ 19:00 Chris Dixon And where, but where, how do you think about, so, you know, in that, in the cloud infrastructure world, you have AWS, Azure, Google Cloud. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:34 Fred Wilson But I, I think it could be like Amazon has 60% of the market, Google has 30% of the market, and Microsoft has 10% of the market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:04 Chris Dixon But eventually it'll flip, and it'll be like, Amazon is commerce, and Walmart is,
a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
- ▶ 31:33 Chris Dixon Are we headed to an internet that's, that's, um, similar to TV where you have like four channels that control everything, you know, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, et cetera.
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
- ▶ 12:00 Cal Turner, Jr. Now, even the Amazons of the world have to get it to the customer.
a16z Podcast | When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
- ▶ 14:29 Russ Hedleston It's like a 200 dollar bottle of whiskey or tequila or Amazon gift card.
a16z Podcast | Crypto And The Evolution Of Open Source
- ▶ 4:01 Dennis Nazarov They need a computer, a virtual machine, or some AWS service, where they, ah, run some server on it, and they deploy the database, but they have no users, they start from scratch.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- ▶ 27:09 Jeff Jordan And it's typically other BMS, because the top apps are almost all done by Facebook, Amazon, yeah, Google, and, you know, breaking through, just, Mark calls it the first page. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
- ▶ 6:50 Jeff Jordan Amazon's key marketing right now is free shipping.
- ▶ 19:31 Andrew Chen Everyone's had the experience now where they're just, like, in a room talking, and then their, you know, Amazon Echo just turns on and is trying to go, and I'm like, you know, they have no incentive to fix that.
a16z Podcast | Earned Secrets
- ▶ 1:33 Ben Horowitz One is that the cloud computing wars are starting in earnest, and there's kind of three big players, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, and, you know, Microsoft is willing to write big checks to play.
- ▶ 6:21 Ben Horowitz And so I think all of those things will really change the face of what we now think of as the Internet and mobile and Google and Amazon and Facebook.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 4:06 Chris Dixon So, for example, as in the performance side, it's not as performant as, let's say, AWS or Google Cloud Services or something if you wanted to write a video game or something.
- ▶ 27:06 Devon Zuegel Right now, we have Amazon AWS, but we also have 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:13 Devon Zuegel , it seems like IPFS is sort of the AWS of, of crypto, or at least the S three.
- ▶ 38:52 Chris Dixon You know, the vast majority of people's time they spent on the internet now is spent at Google, Apple, you know, using a service by Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, etc.
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- ▶ 28:52 Ben Horowitz Like they're the highest of any industry and like Amazon's approval raising, which is one of the biggest targets is like 80.
- ▶ 33:21 Ben Horowitz You know, Facebook or Amazon will wipe it out.
a16z Podcast | All Things Compensation
- ▶ 21:41 Shannon Schiltz Apple, Amazon. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | B2B2C
- ▶ 7:15 Alex Rampell A long time ago, or at the very beginning, before Amazon really became big in Japan, the Amazon of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:32 Alex Rampell People also buy from Amazon.
- ▶ 28:30 Alex Rampell Like, you can buy stuff at Amazon, and Apple hates Amazon. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 12:42 W. Brian Arthur Think of Amazon.com.
- ▶ 41:30 Sonal Chokshi There'd be servers in Amazon's cloud, there'd be something local, the local printer, there'd be something else, like a processing payment thing, maybe in Palo Alto, there could be all these different pieces kind of coming together to drive…
a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
- ▶ 24:54 Alex Rampell You know, he, like, he actually really rewarded that person, whereas if you think about the most successful thing that Amazon's done in the last five years, it's the Amazon.com app on your iPhone, but that was riding a massive secular…
- ▶ 24:54 Alex Rampell You know, he, like, he actually really rewarded that person, whereas if you think about the most successful thing that Amazon's done in the last five years, it's the Amazon.com app on your iPhone, but that was riding a massive secular…
a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
- ▶ 2:26 Jez Humble And no one had had that problem before, certainly at the scale of companies like Amazon and Google.
- ▶ 16:23 Jez Humble Amazon model. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:58 Sonal Chokshi It is a secret of success to Amazon, as you cited earlier.
a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- ▶ 12:01 Sonal Chokshi So when I think of internet native commerce, I think of Amazon, which never had a brick and mortar legacy.
- ▶ 23:02 Laura Behrens-Wu You're also competing with the retail giants like Amazon, Walmart, Target, and then the other benefit like access to data at scale 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:29 Laura Behrens-Wu And that's like another thing that Amazon has introduced. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:02 Augusto Marietti And so if you go back like to Amazon AWS, became AWS in 2006 with the Amazon S three, right?
- ▶ 28:02 Augusto Marietti And so if you go back like to Amazon AWS, became AWS in 2006 with the Amazon S three, right?
- ▶ 30:01 Augusto Marietti So build around your core offering, and also out of there you can public some of those and make it a business itself as well, and that's really what Amazon and AWS did.
- ▶ 30:01 Augusto Marietti So build around your core offering, and also out of there you can public some of those and make it a business itself as well, and that's really what Amazon and AWS did.
a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
- ▶ 1:18 Florian Leibert But then of course they install these platform services and platform services are, for example, distributed databases, message queues, and many other things that you find on Amazon that you find on Google cloud.
- ▶ 5:29 Kartik Rao You know, if you're running in a cloud, you can maybe just use an API to leverage some of these core services from an Amazon or a Google, but within an enterprise, oftentimes you'll still find these functions.
a16z Podcast | The State of Security
- ▶ 9:43 Joel de la Garza I think what's more interesting to me is a lot of the stuff that Amazon is doing around KMS and some of the stuff that Google's doing around their virtualized key services.
- ▶ 16:51 Niels Provos And companies such as Google or Microsoft or Amazon will just be able to do that much, much better than you could do yourself.
a16z Podcast | Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning
- ▶ 27:14 Sonal Chokshi And especially in this age of Amazon, which is pretty much nailed the whole customer part of it. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Self-Flying Camera
- ▶ 15:38 Chris Dixon Just from a technology point of view that people started to see it for like Alexa and products like this, and generally there's sort of, you know, there's been all of this incredible progress in AI in the last couple years, but I think…
a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
- ▶ 29:50 Ted Sarandos Right now that everyone's knocking each other out and paying increase, the cost of that Amazon NFL deal for basically games that are on two other networks at the same time, so completely non-exclusive programming, went up 10 times from… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:56 Marc Andreessen So overrated, underrated Amazon's content efforts. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:23 Marc Andreessen The fact that it's coupled to Amazon Prime is interesting, because on the one hand, they have such this giant base of Amazon Prime subscribers, and they want to get a lot more, on the other hand. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 6:22 John Collison We saw this with Cloud, very notably, where Amazon started with SQS and SD.
- ▶ 6:22 John Collison We saw this with Cloud, very notably, where Amazon started with SQS and SD.
- ▶ 6:26 John Collison Three and EC two, the very basic primitive storage and compute, and then, you know, moved very quickly up the stack to, you know, we're very happy users of AWS.
- ▶ 6:26 John Collison Three and EC two, the very basic primitive storage and compute, and then, you know, moved very quickly up the stack to, you know, we're very happy users of AWS.
- ▶ 6:35 John Collison We're very happy users of Amazon Redshift. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:50 John Collison You know, yes, Amazon is more expensive than racking our own servers, but it would be lunacy for us to do that, because it would mean the time to ship any product now is going to be 12 to 18 months.
a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing
- ▶ 19:12 Andrew Savage Amazon had to sell books really well before it could sell you pretty much everything else under the sun, right?
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 1:14 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, so you see, clearly there's a whole Alexa story, and then you've got people going around saying, well, Alexa and voice is a new platform, and this is going to replace smartphones, and Amazon's got off to a great start, and…
- ▶ 1:14 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, so you see, clearly there's a whole Alexa story, and then you've got people going around saying, well, Alexa and voice is a new platform, and this is going to replace smartphones, and Amazon's got off to a great start, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:31 Benedict Evans What's the Amazon strategy?
- ▶ 7:51 Benedict Evans Plus, if I want to actually get into Best Buy, they're going to tell me, well, you've got to support Alexa and Google Home and HomeKit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:08 Benedict Evans Will you say, hey, Alexa, turn on the extractor fan? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:04 Steven Sinofsky Like, they don't even know if you have Alexa, Siri, or Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:19 Benedict Evans Yeah, and so that's the, that's the, there's a massive Amazon Facebook motivation here, which drove the Kindle Fire, and then now has driven Alexa, and drove a bunch of stuff for Facebook, and so there's a bunch of reasons why people want… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:19 Benedict Evans Yeah, and so that's the, that's the, there's a massive Amazon Facebook motivation here, which drove the Kindle Fire, and then now has driven Alexa, and drove a bunch of stuff for Facebook, and so there's a bunch of reasons why people want… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:02 Benedict Evans Back to our talking, we were talking about connected home here, what you have on Alexa is somebody built a washing machine, and somebody built a dishwasher, and somebody built a toaster, and somebody built a fridge, but each one of the… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:19 Steven Sinofsky Finally, just really want to touch on this point about being cross-platform, and whether you should embed the Alexa runtime, or the Siri runtime, or the, which you can embed, or the Google runtime, which is, was Google's Hey Google… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:03 Benedict Evans Amazon want there to be Amazon Home everywhere. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Food
- ▶ 17:28 Ushma Garg So people are expecting things at home, and everyone's used to subscriptions and Amazon and so on and so forth.
a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
- ▶ 2:40 Juan Benet One is, these things in volume are not actually free, so if you try to store hundreds of terabytes or petabytes in Amazon S III, you're gonna have a bad time.
- ▶ 3:29 Juan Benet How are you going to compete with Amazon?
- ▶ 6:16 Chris Dixon Because it seems like a lot of the things being built today are things like what you're building, Juan, right, which are more kind of infrastructure layer, and sort of building kind of the equivalent of like the AWS for the web two point… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 15:39 Steven Sinofsky Like, people complain about AWS pricing, but the, the flip side of it is like running a data center yourself is 10 times as expensive.
a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
- ▶ 5:45 Adina Friedman I mean, at the end of the day, there are so many great examples of success stories, like in Amazon, came public at three hundred million, you know, it was worth, what, four hundred billion today.
a16z Podcast | AI, from 'Toy' Problems to Practical Application
- ▶ 0:24 Sonal Chokshi But joining us for this episode, we have Joe Spisak, who leads strategic and programmatic partnerships for Amazon Web Services, so has a front row seat on what's happening with a bunch of companies interested in AI and machine learning.
- ▶ 1:25 Scott Clark And now they have the infrastructure readily available with things like AWS and all these new Nvidia chips. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:19 Joe Spisak Big companies like Amazon and Facebook and obviously the larger deep tech companies.
- ▶ 22:51 Sonal Chokshi So I have a question for you guys and especially Joe, given that you work at AWS and Scott, from your vantage point, is this going to come about
- ▶ 23:45 Joe Spisak Because even today, you know, just being the self-deprecating Amazon guy, we have services that aren't, they're not very flexible. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:53 Joe Spisak Like our image recognition service is really cool, and it does a lot of great things, but I can't actually bring my own data to it.
- ▶ 27:59 Martin Casado I think that's the game of the big players like the Amazons or the Googles. 2 times in the scene