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a16z Podcast | The Cloud and The Public Sector
- ▶ 23:47 Sonal Chokshi You essentially represent the private cloud arm of AWS in general.
a16z Podcast | On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
- ▶ 1:51 Sonal Chokshi Amazon has a lab in Silicon Valley.
a16z Podcast | Banking on the Blockchain
- ▶ 35:06 William Mougayar I'm still waiting to see the, the new Amazon. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
- ▶ 0:39 Sonal Chokshi Just to give people context, because I think in the U.S. most people are probably most used to Amazon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:57 Sonal Chokshi Because I think this is the problem Amazon would have on the fashion side is that as a fashion buyer, an aspirational buyer, especially, I seek a curated experience. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:10 Anu Hariharan Uh, logistics and supply chain are in these markets, you know, both China and India, for example, versus I think Amazon in the US, you know, didn't really, I mean, they obviously did a lot by bringing in fulfillment by Amazon and stuff,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:13 Anu Hariharan If you look at the US, uh, you know, Amazon is both first party and third, you know, it has third party marketplace, which is now bigger than the first party sales. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:19 Sonal Chokshi Because I think of how I get my Amazon confirmations over email, but in India, I would expect to get more confirmations through text message.
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 3:34 Benedict Evans Um, deliberately or not, and that affects how you can get to your users, and so Facebook and to some extent Amazon are sort of sitting on top of this and thinking, well, okay, what do we do here?
- ▶ 9:05 Chris Messina I spend way too much money on Amazon because of the richness of that channel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:20 Chris Messina And so that's the shift that I see in terms of this new runtime and that those conversations will take many forms, whether they're in the form of chat and, you know, with chat bubbles and the conventional kind of like back and forth,…
- ▶ 38:18 Sonal Chokshi That is as good as my relationship with Alexa in the sense that I can, it has a personality and something that not like Tay, just something that I really just want to interact with as my go-to place.
- ▶ 42:00 Chris Messina And Amazon is a good example of this.
a16z Podcast | Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
- ▶ 5:04 Martin Casado It's a piece of infrastructure that if they build to it, then they can run it, you know, in Amazon or locally or anywhere else.
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 6:09 Marc Andreessen So Jeff Bezos never does a turnaround at Amazon.
- ▶ 17:42 Don Faul We, we, we got to learning that it would be his latest Amazon purchase of this book he read, and so we, we had an in, and we figured out how to get a notification when he ordered a new book so that we could prepare ourselves for what ideas…
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 28:56 Saku Panditaratne Yeah, this is probably why Amazon actually just released a game engine, because, which has connections to AWS, so they, I guess they wanna, they, the plan is to have that as the backend, or at least be part of it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:56 Saku Panditaratne Yeah, this is probably why Amazon actually just released a game engine, because, which has connections to AWS, so they, I guess they wanna, they, the plan is to have that as the backend, or at least be part of it.
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 13:10 Martin Casado So the first one is if you looked at mega data centers, you know, the Googles, the Amazons, the Facebooks, they were building, uh, networks very different than anybody else. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:32 Michael Copeland Like Amazon, for example, or Google or whomever. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | 'In the Eye of a Tornado': Views on Innovation from China
- ▶ 15:49 Clay Shirky The company that Xiaomi is most like is Amazon, and when you think about the kinds of things Amazon has done to innovate, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Money and Monetization
- ▶ 10:26 James Beshara Their focus is selling books, uh, their focus is e-commerce, um, the company's Amazon, and in 2005 started to, uh, make use of this inventory, this asset that they had in infrastructure.
- ▶ 10:38 James Beshara And that became AWS, and now it's something that we, along with a gazillion other sites, use as an infrastructure, and I think that banks could, could use that story internally in recognition of, you know, we have no interest of doing… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:49 Alex Rampell This is why Amazon doesn't sell books anymore. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- ▶ 22:23 Mike Paulus People are always wondering when the Amazon or the Google or the really big tech players in the U S are going to make their, their real splash. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 37:34 unnamed speaker An Apple or an Amazon 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
- ▶ 28:54 Orion Hindawi Sure, as well as the things that they deploy into Amazon and AWS or as well as the things that they deploy that work from home, you know.
- ▶ 28:54 Orion Hindawi Sure, as well as the things that they deploy into Amazon and AWS or as well as the things that they deploy that work from home, you know.
a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
- ▶ 23:27 Steven Sinofsky But if everybody can get on a plane and fly to southern China, and every customer can search the web and order any product from Amazon from any place on earth and not know, those limitations just aren't there anymore.
a16z Podcast | Harnessing the DevOps Movement -- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls
- ▶ 10:20 Alex Solomon So this is why people use increasingly AWS and infrastructure as a service platform as a service and now SAS because someone else has to worry about that uptime and I pay them. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Making the Most of the Data That Matters
- ▶ 18:45 Roman Stanek What makes Amazon Amazon is that the data sample is so big that you can actually really learn from it.
- ▶ 27:44 Prat Moghe There's very sophisticated security control, so you're seeing, you know, it's not as religious as, as it, as it used to be before, and that's one of the reasons why you're seeing CMOs and CIOs come together, because there are platforms…
- ▶ 27:44 Prat Moghe There's very sophisticated security control, so you're seeing, you know, it's not as religious as, as it, as it used to be before, and that's one of the reasons why you're seeing CMOs and CIOs come together, because there are platforms…
- ▶ 29:02 Gaurav Dhillon If your data's in the cloud, you're using a website hosted in Amazon or
a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
- ▶ 0:10 Michael Copeland Today, spitting up compute can be done from any smartphone with an AWS account or something similar.
- ▶ 11:52 Jeff Lawson I'm a serial entrepreneur and started three companies before Twilio, uh, and had been at AWS, uh, as a product manager early on.
- ▶ 15:27 Peter Levine Second only to Amazon. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:52 Ben Uretsky Amazon Web Services or Azure 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:00 Ben Uretsky And actually, I think this will be our differentiator over the long term, now that I think about it a little bit more, ah, Amazon is known as a closed cloud with, you know, vendor lock-in is kind of, ah, written all over about in the… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
- ▶ 28:18 Steven Sinofsky We had one the other day where, like, Amazon released sort of a, a,
a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
- ▶ 26:35 Chris Milk Uh, I mean, we use, uh, Amazon AWS.
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 5:26 Benedict Evans And do change stuff every summer, and you have Facebook kind of trying to butt in, and there's Amazon, and there's WeChat, and all sorts of other people kind of looking at this platform in a way that we didn't have on the desktop web,…
- ▶ 14:51 Michael Copeland So, and then that leaves us with Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and, and Samsung for that matter, but these other players who, who are clearly in the mobile venue and they need to be there, but where are they? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:06 Benedict Evans The tablet is doing kind of okay.
a16z Podcast | The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 38:20 Kyle Russell I mean, what, that seems like, you know, we talk about Amazon having two-day shipping or even same-day shipping, and oh, that lets you return things easier, and you'll try more things.
a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce
- ▶ 6:00 Shan Sinha I can work with people up in different geographies building, you know, the best cloud service infrastructure like Amazon to, to deliver a
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 1:38 Anu Hariharan You know, you, you almost start seeing things like, oh, is this the Amazon of India?
- ▶ 2:16 Sonal Chokshi Because when I think of businesses like Amazon who have the scale of operations to really be able to execute on doing something in India, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:37 Anu Hariharan You know, it started off with about more than 50 e-commerce players in the market, and now, you know, the top four are actually Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon India, and Paytm. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:07 Anu Hariharan I think the, um, at least the consumers in, in India have an expectation for how that particular fulfillment should work similar to how in the U S for example, you know, when Amazon came to India, they actually had a guarantee same day… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:49 Anu Hariharan And given the hyper-competitive space in India, uh, and given Amazon India is also actively increasing their presence, uh, I can only imagine that, you know, at some point in time, they may want to make an entry.
- ▶ 22:54 Anu Hariharan The classic example is Amazon India, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:21 Anu Hariharan So if you look at e-commerce, you know, the initial ambitions of these players where we want to be the Amazon of India.
- ▶ 41:52 Anu Hariharan Take Amazon India, for example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:54 Anu Hariharan Amit, who leads, uh, Amazon India, um, worked in Amazon Seattle for more than 15 years, and so he has, uh, and he knows the Indian ecosystem, um, and so he brings the blend of both those markets and the execution knowledge of having worked… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 2:07 Reshma Sohoni Everything else feeds through like a Google or Facebook or, you know, Amazon and Apple.
a16z Podcast | Nootropics and the Best Version of Your Brain, Yourself
a16z Podcast | London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way
- ▶ 32:24 Martha Lane Fox Well, the truth is, it's both right, because GCHQ and Amazon are all working together in that little drone, so.
a16z Podcast | The Data Science of Food and Taste
- ▶ 2:22 Ushma Garg And I've seen companies like Netflix or Pandora, um, or Amazon really leverage all of their rich customer data to make the experience for you very personalized on their websites.
- ▶ 7:34 Michael Copeland And, and like, it's a meal at the end of the day that we all want to enjoy, but the logistics side of it, you guys seem almost more closer to Amazon than you are to the restaurant that I go to, to go have a dinner. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Recent IPOs and Comparing Private vs. Public Valuations
- ▶ 32:48 Steve McDermott You know, the most extreme example of that is Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:02 Steve McDermott You know, we've been fortunate to see a little bit of that in the Amazon's expanded disclosure of AWS, but it's just a challenging situation to really, uh, to think about these cash flows for these hyper-growth companies.
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 1:30 Alex Rampell I think it's like Amazon, Walmart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:48 Eileen Burbage You may not be selling to a bank, you might be selling to Facebook, you might be selling to Amazon, you might be selling to Google as they try to expand what they offer
- ▶ 37:44 Alex Rampell Um, because who pays for your miles or your Amazon points or your cash back? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
- ▶ 36:08 Azim Azhar Because these are the things that, uh, you, you can't do through Amazon. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap
- ▶ 25:59 Sonal Chokshi Unlike the past analogs we have here, when we look at the history and evolution of computing, where there was sort of this diffusion effect that happened from government to industry, and then to startups with sort of an Amazon Web…
a16z Podcast | Beyond Lean Startups
- ▶ 5:42 Michael Copeland It sounds like Amazon does, but maybe owning the means of production isn't worth as much as, well, it's worth a lot to Amazon, but. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:54 Eric Ries It's like one of the reasons why Amazon is so effective. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 21:06 Steven Sinofsky On top of this infrastructure, whether it's AWS or it's Azure
a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
- ▶ 6:39 Peter Levine Are more going to look like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and less like older, you know, sort of Wall, I call them Wall Street data centers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:31 Ash Ashatosh Amazon has got a ton of resources on sale.
- ▶ 12:42 Ash Ashatosh They're giving, and in fact, we predict that the number one enterprise cloud in the next two years is probably going to be Azure, and not AWS, just because they are sucking up a tremendous amount of footprint of applications. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software
- ▶ 24:46 Michael Franklin Uh, but if, if, if you were attached to the internet, then it would create a bunch of jobs on Mechanical Turk or something, and send them out, and let, and let the crowd answer it, and then all of a sudden it wasn't such a dumb database…
a16z Podcast | How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley
- ▶ 9:06 Elizabeth Weil Or if you're my case, you Amazon, uh, Amazon, Amazon Prime or Google Shopping Express shows up daily.
- ▶ 9:06 Elizabeth Weil Or if you're my case, you Amazon, uh, Amazon, Amazon Prime or Google Shopping Express shows up daily.
a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne
- ▶ 4:35 Michael Copeland I mean, was it as the company grew, or as you saw others around you really leverage technology, whether that's Amazon or Google or somebody else?
- ▶ 15:52 Patrick Byrne Amazon followed a couple years later. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:02 Patrick Byrne The recommendation, uh, algorithms span some of that distance, but at the end of the day, if you want to go and be shopping among tens of millions of products and any, anything, there's other sites for that, like eBay or Amazon.
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 36:00 Alex Rampell Where I go to Amazon, I buy something, it gets shipped to me in a box, and that's how I actually receive the goods.
a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
- ▶ 27:08 John Markoff But when Andy Rubin was going around the valley and buying and around the world and buying up, you know, the world's best roboticist, he was sketching out a vision, um, which I would describe as a Google competing with Amazon.
a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything
- ▶ 17:28 David Pierce Whether it's, uh, you know, Amazon has the
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
a16z Podcast | Why Every Business is in the Data Business
- ▶ 0:04 Michael Copeland It's not just the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon that lean on a massive and growing corpus of data.
- ▶ 8:49 Ash Ashatosh Google has announced Amazon is basically five bucks a month.
a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science
- ▶ 0:30 Sonal Chokshi Is more bioinnovation possible for more entrepreneurs than ever before because of cost, much like what AWS did for web startups?
- ▶ 4:19 Chris Dixon You know, in the nineties you had to spend, raise tens of millions of dollars, set up your own data center, you know, build your own kind of back-end systems, and then you had things like AWS, and, you know, famously, you know, you have… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:20 Vijay Pande And this is not running calculations on AWS that involve biology. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:48 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, kind of as you allude to, by 2005, and certainly by 2008, 2009, um, cloud computing and AWS and open source and all these trends in computer science had evolved to the point where you have this boom of angel funding and seed… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Big Data Goes Really Big
- ▶ 10:12 Prat Moghe Um, I, I recently visited, um, an e-tailer that's competing with Amazon, right?
- ▶ 11:49 Peter Levine Think about big data two dot O as the sort of an out the analogy is what Amazon did for compute big data two dot O is doing to 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:56 Prat Moghe They'll usually get into AWS, they'll start playing around with Redshift, they'll start playing around with Hadoop, Spark,
- ▶ 17:56 Prat Moghe They'll usually get into AWS, they'll start playing around with Redshift, they'll start playing around with Hadoop, Spark,
a16z Podcast | It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
- ▶ 20:30 Kieran Snyder AWS is what has changed things, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:39 Kieran Snyder Um, and I say that not because I worked at Amazon before, but, but it actually is, like, for, for our team to set up
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 5:12 Mohsen Malayeri It's like Amazon of Iran.
- ▶ 7:51 Chris Schroeder Uh, what I like to use, in effect, in my book, I call them improvisers, because what, what great entrepreneurs do is don't merely make, quote, unquote, the Amazon of the, of Iran. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:34 Mohsen Malayeri So that's, that's what happened to Flipkart, I think, because Flipkart was not only, you know, solving the, the local challenges perfectly, but also over time, before Amazon steps in, they have been able to get some market share, and over…
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
- ▶ 8:24 Benedict Evans I mean, there's Amazon off to one side, which we had a conversation about last year.