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a16z Podcast | Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
- ▶ 6:35 Steven Sinofsky Like not, like it's very achievable, you know, like on your, your Amazon credits. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:14 Frank Chen Yeah, for people who are interested, I'd highly recommend Andre Kaparthi's YC talk on this, the, you can search for it, it's on Google Slides, and he, the whole talk is basically about where will artificial general intelligence come from,…
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 12:30 Benedict Evans Machine learning is like this new foundational technology that, in a sense, will enable a bunch of new stuff and new companies, but it makes Google better Google, and it makes Facebook stronger, Facebook and Amazon maybe stronger Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:22 Tim O'Reilly You know, Amazon showed it with the Echo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:22 Tim O'Reilly You know, Amazon showed it with the Echo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:11 Tim O'Reilly Well, I had that conversation with Tony Fadell about why Google didn't do something like the Echo, and he said, could you imagine if it were Google who had first come out,
- ▶ 20:24 Tim O'Reilly And the fact that it was Amazon that didn't have that big brother, uh, story already, they were a retailer, you know, an e-commerce site, it, it, and a cloud computing site, but they weren't kind of this omnipresent, uh, big brother, you… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:37 Benedict Evans This is a question around, you know, how these companies evolve, the rigor and aggression and, um, self-awareness of how Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon are run now.
- ▶ 29:02 Benedict Evans It's not apparent how that cycle would turn for Google or Apple or Facebook or Amazon, but it will turn. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 1:24 Chris Dixon We had economics, we have Amazon, we have, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:14 Chris Dixon You had to have AWS and you had to have all these other kinds of layers of infrastructure.
- ▶ 26:47 Chris Dixon It's like barnesandnoble.com, not Amazon, right?
a16z Podcast | Cash, Growth, and CEO ❤ CFO
- ▶ 17:26 Ben Horowitz What Amazon is doing, I think, is a lot the right approach, which is, you get, you have one business.
a16z Podcast | The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
- ▶ 17:39 Luis von Ahn I mean, that's the whole idea with Amazon Mechanical Turk.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 0:10 Sonal Chokshi Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:02 Benedict Evans And the fun thing about looking at specifically Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon is that generally the stuff that, uh, you know, any of the stuff that's a strategy for one company is tactics for other companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:29 Benedict Evans So, you know, people look at Amazon, at Facebook and Google and think they're advertising companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:18 Benedict Evans But equally, you know, Apple has taken that team and pointed it at the Echo platform. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:35 Steven Sinofsky And we have Amazon. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:00 Benedict Evans You could argue now they're adding a third in the form of Prime, which is slightly different.
- ▶ 24:22 Steven Sinofsky And, and that's where like this notion of all, all four of these companies, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon, 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
- ▶ 21:17 Jeff Jordan Amazon launched their auction competitor on, during the, either the IPO and the secondary and Yahoo launched their auction competitor on the other one.
a16z Podcast | Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
- ▶ 23:24 Sonal Chokshi And that's the one place that Amazon Prime delivers to. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
- ▶ 11:07 Sonal Chokshi I would actually say there's a flip side of this, though, again, which I think is really fascinating, because when you think about the internet economy, birth of Amazon, which is, let's face it, the behemoth and everything, the everything… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:01 Sonal Chokshi Amazon exists because of logistics and infrastructure, like innovations and being able to ship things and deliver things fast.
a16z Podcast | The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
- ▶ 13:02 Sonal Chokshi When you think about the history of classical computing and how long it actually took us to get like to an AWS like state.
a16z Podcast | Tech Policy and the Courts
- ▶ 18:40 Karen Dunn Similarly, in this, I don't know if you're similarly following the Alexa murder case, where 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:49 Karen Dunn So, the government had wanted the data in the Amazon Echo.
- ▶ 19:02 Karen Dunn And Amazon did not want to give this up, and they asserted, uh, fifth, or First Amendment.
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 7:42 Marc Andreessen One is Walmart, and now, and now Amazon, and of course now there's, there's waves of retail bankruptcies, ah, as, as consumer shopping behavior is shifting online. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Quantum Computing, Now and Next
- ▶ 8:39 Chad Rigetti Our laptops and our supercomputers and Amazon Web Services are amazing computing resources.
- ▶ 22:26 Chad Rigetti Phalanxes of GPUs over AWS that allowed this to really, to really take hold because the number of folks who can contribute to improvements in the, from an algorithmic perspective was significantly increased.
a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
- ▶ 4:35 Connie Chan It's not that it takes you to the homepage of the Amazon app.
a16z Podcast | Crisis Communications
- ▶ 9:40 Margit Wennmachers It could be like the person that runs AWS versus, you know, the CEO.
- ▶ 19:37 Sonal Chokshi Yeah, I mean, the example that pops into my mind as Amazon, they had a huge outage, and they never have an outage, and they did, like, a very detailed, to your point,
a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 1:39 Chris Dixon One was to invest directly in companies like Amazon, and if you were fortunate enough to invest in Amazon, of course, that would be a phenomenal investment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:41 Chris Dixon So basically, effectively, it's a public AWS, is what you should think of as the miner network.
- ▶ 21:53 Olaf Carlson-Wee Amazon, as Chris pointed out earlier, was available to a very elite group of venture capitalists, and it's,
- ▶ 26:21 Sonal Chokshi That allow you to, like, repeat this, like, AWS.
a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
- ▶ 3:35 Haoyuan 'H.Y.' Li Several huge vendors in the world like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, uh, et cetera.
- ▶ 10:16 Haoyuan 'H.Y.' Li Just to give you a very concrete example, if you talk to this department, their data is stored in, you know, public cloud storage, maybe in, uh, probably Amazon S three or Google cloud storage.
a16z Podcast | The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups
- ▶ 15:05 Jensen Harris And something like Athena, which allows you to do basically serverless SQL queries on an S three bucket can allow you super fast to just dump a bunch of data into AWS into an S what's called an S three bucket, which is like a storage…
- ▶ 15:05 Jensen Harris And something like Athena, which allows you to do basically serverless SQL queries on an S three bucket can allow you super fast to just dump a bunch of data into AWS into an S what's called an S three bucket, which is like a storage… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:05 Jensen Harris And something like Athena, which allows you to do basically serverless SQL queries on an S three bucket can allow you super fast to just dump a bunch of data into AWS into an S what's called an S three bucket, which is like a storage…
- ▶ 16:38 Jensen Harris Like, you should figure out what cloud platform you're using, whether it's AWS, or whether it's Azure, or something else.
a16z Podcast | Build Your Personal Brand
- ▶ 30:59 Alex Constantinople Like, our portfolio companies we work with is everything from Patagonia to Amazon to,
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 10:30 Sonal Chokshi Now Amazon gives me recommendations, and they're just too hyper-optimized and specific. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 12:54 Reed Hastings As we were growing the DVD business, we developed new competitors of Walmart doing a DVD rental service, Amazon doing one in the UK, and Blockbuster doing a big one, and so suddenly we were up against three much larger companies in that… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:20 Marc Andreessen Right, so then, so then, let me, let me ask directly then, so in the case of an Apple, which I think is just now really starting to put its foot in the water on this stuff, Google, which seems like it's exploring increasingly original… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:25 Reed Hastings The core of Amazon retail and AWS are operational excellence and margin efficiency, and entertainment is a very different thing.
a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
- ▶ 15:10 Yuval Noah Harari If the Amazon algorithm really picks books that you're very happy with, then you'll gradually shift the authority to choose your, the books to Amazon. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
- ▶ 4:27 Sonal Chokshi And the business at the time was basically like a precursor to AWS.
a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
- ▶ 22:17 Gaurav Dhillon Might have data lakes exist in Microsoft Azure, or in AWS as S three buckets, or we'll see what Google does with BigQuery, Bigtable, that that is going to give you, in a sense, a turbo mode of execution around analytics, predictive…
- ▶ 22:17 Gaurav Dhillon Might have data lakes exist in Microsoft Azure, or in AWS as S three buckets, or we'll see what Google does with BigQuery, Bigtable, that that is going to give you, in a sense, a turbo mode of execution around analytics, predictive…
- ▶ 27:40 Gaurav Dhillon If you're in retail, you have to compete with Amazon, which has all this stuff baked in and is able to come out, uh, with, uh, with new things like drones and so on.
a16z Podcast | Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
- ▶ 2:15 Jeff Jordan You might go through Best Buy or through your own stores and more recently through Amazon.
- ▶ 9:08 Jeff Jordan So Amazon being the prototypical example, you know, the, the world's largest bookstore. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:32 James Beshara You know, buying on Amazon, I don't really think I'm participating in e-commerce.
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 18:42 Luke Wroblewski I've had my Alexa for years and I love the thing, but like, I don't know what the hell it does, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Sonal Chokshi It's actually funny because I get that weekly email from Amazon as well, and it's the same header, what's new in Alexa, and they never give you a preview in the subject header. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:35 Sonal Chokshi That the reason Alexa and Echo work so well is because they are in a contained, constrained space. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
- ▶ 7:51 Frank Chen So one of the things that we've been watching over the last five years is if you think about the anchor tenants of the tech ecosystem, so you got Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, they are clearing out the AI machine learning departments of…
a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money
- ▶ 19:04 Alex Rampell You don't have any, any horizontal services marketplace, despite the fact that Amazon is trying to do that.
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 22:53 Chris Dixon I'm on some waiting lists on Amazon, yeah.
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 13:19 Kyle Russell Again, using lots of terms that Amazon uses actually when talking about the Echo, the other kind of invisible computing product, where it's doing beamforming with the microphone to detect your voice and then lock in on it.
- ▶ 13:19 Kyle Russell Again, using lots of terms that Amazon uses actually when talking about the Echo, the other kind of invisible computing product, where it's doing beamforming with the microphone to detect your voice and then lock in on it.
- ▶ 25:25 Kyle Russell Amazon Echo competitors seems like the only, uh,
a16z Podcast | Sleep!
- ▶ 8:24 Ariana Huffington And if that means I make fewer decisions, but the decisions I make are five percent better because I'm fully rested and recharged, that's better for Amazon.
a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
- ▶ 1:09 Frank Chen Take us back to the days when Netflix had decided they were going to move to Amazon and commit to a microservices architecture. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:19 Adrian Cockcroft That container can run on VMware or KVM on OpenStack or on Amazon or Google or
- ▶ 24:33 Adrian Cockcroft We're early movers, mostly because of the threat of Amazon themselves, causing retailers to step up to, to re-engineering.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 4:20 James Currier We have scale, like you'd see with an Amazon, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:07 Fred Benenson And I was like, experimenting with Mechanical Turk at the same time. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:10 Fred Benenson I think it was like one of the original Amazon web services. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 26:40 Anu Hariharan So it's like, it's almost like the Amazon first party, if you wanted to think of it, which is like, it's still a good business.
- ▶ 44:53 Anu Hariharan And, uh, they can't negotiate great discounts like how Amazon does because they consolidate, but there is a shipping provider that is sort of servicing all of them, uh, a tech company, and it's collecting all the data.
a16z Podcast | On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer
- ▶ 1:31 Sonal Chokshi I think it's interesting that you referenced that as a sort of a tour of duty, because one of the complaints that I've heard, you know, we have a lot of government folks that come in through our doors is that it's really hard to attract…
- ▶ 15:25 Sonal Chokshi So then the question I have is we had a podcast earlier with Teresa Carlson from AWS for public sector and nonprofit and international. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 5:10 Marc Andreessen So anybody who uses AWS can now go on and can program an application on AWS that will run across 20,000 computers and they can run it for an hour and it'll cost, you know, 50 bucks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:35 Sonal Chokshi You didn't mention Amazon, which is sort of the stealth player here with Echo and Alexa. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:35 Sonal Chokshi You didn't mention Amazon, which is sort of the stealth player here with Echo and Alexa.
- ▶ 11:35 Sonal Chokshi You didn't mention Amazon, which is sort of the stealth player here with Echo and Alexa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:48 Sonal Chokshi So there will be like an AWS for AI. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 15:13 Alex Rampell But the online world, part of the reason why Amazon is dominating, part of it is logistics, and that they can deliver anything in one day, and anybody else takes a week. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:31 Charlie Wurzel To me, that feels like if, if Amazon chooses, you know, not to go through, that's a, that's a big thing sticking out there. 10 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 16:07 Kyle Russell It's more like Alexa, where they're reliant on particular developers to introduce new skills.
a16z Podcast | Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
- ▶ 3:58 Michael Copeland But it's also this AWS kind of like, look, we're just going to take the services that we need when we need them and pay for that.
- ▶ 5:15 Vijay Pande This isn't something that has to happen immediately, that what will happen is one will see gradual and gradual, um, penetration of these services in, uh, first in pilot projects, then larger and larger, and we already see this with compute… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:30 Vijay Pande At first, there was maybe concerns about security, other things, and what I've heard, uh, confidentially from people is that, uh, AWS actually has, um, better security than often the way a lot of people would set up themselves. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 Jeff Kindler Most of the time it's Amazon taking over Barnes and Noble. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 29:55 Chris Dixon and then I go to Mechanical Turk, and I label them, and I input them to my system, and I train it, right?
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 48:10 Balaji Srinivasan The number two, in terms of the future of ownership, I do think that basically the interface to every physical object will be, ah, ultimately digitized, in the sense that you won't own a car, you won't have, you know, you already don't…
a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
- ▶ 14:36 Sonal Chokshi And I think the reason this causes U.S. lawmakers to freak out a little bit when they hear, you know, Amazon saying, hey, we might start doing, developing drones in Brazil or another country is
- ▶ 34:32 Grant Jordan Um, you know, you can't have Amazon using drones, uh,
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 13:36 Kyle Russell Looking across these products that we've talked about so far, you know, Google Home, where it's going to be this Amazon Echo competitor, the messaging application with Google kind of discussions baked in where you can talk back and forth…
a16z Podcast | The Cloud and The Public Sector
- ▶ 0:03 Sonal Chokshi I'm Sonal, and I'm honored today to have as our guest, Teresa Carlson, who is the vice president of the worldwide public sector for AWS, or Amazon Web Services. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:13 Teresa Carlson And he said, look, there's these new technologies out there called cloud, and Amazon Web Services is one of them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:29 Teresa Carlson And they're trying to use innovative technologies, and AWS, of course, is core to what they go to, because they're like, okay, let's get your infrastructure up, let's get going, let's move fast.
- ▶ 10:21 Teresa Carlson It'll be very cool like an AWS pop-up where we'll bring people in.
- ▶ 16:54 Teresa Carlson So one of the big things that AWS brings to the table is our infrastructure allows startups to jump on that and inherit all those security and compliance controls.