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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
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
- ▶ 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…
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