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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
The 2025 AI Search Race
- ▶ 11:58 Alex Immerman They are not investing the capex like Meta and Google and Microsoft and Amazon, but they control a central node to the consumer, and if they wanted to build a search application, the next day they could have a billion users.
How to Build a Thriving AI Ecosystem with Lisa Su, CEO of AMD
AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
- ▶ 19:35 Kim Branson The Mechanical Turk type thing, or whatever it is, you can sell a random forest.
Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- ▶ 2:26 Mark Casey You know, I looked at Netflix at 6:30 then, and Amazon at one 80, and Facebook at three 80,
- ▶ 4:10 Mark Casey Um, I started following Amazon in 2005. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:58 Mark Casey Amazon gives you ridiculous guidance for the next quarter.
- ▶ 19:24 Mark Casey Subscribe to Amazon Prime, and then, like, halfway along said, this is terrible.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:21:22 Ben Horowitz Original Amazon. 3 times in the scene
The Future of Prosumer: The Rise of “AI Native” Workflows
- ▶ 1:45 Olivia Moore Was not better than Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 1:17:44 Ben Horowitz That's when Amazon got started.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 46:44 Ben Horowitz And, and so like, it just turns out to be harder than Alexa, uh, amazingly.
- ▶ 1:04:08 Marc Andreessen And then, um, it turns out if you just, did you see Amazon, there was news, I think this week, Amazon, they had these stores where they had, they had these retail stores they were doing for like groceries where it was, it was the just walk…
Jeff Sloan (Global Payments): Placing Multiple Bets on ‘Mosaic of Solutions’
- ▶ 23:21 Jeff Sloan You know, we had signed marquee and really distinctive deals with both AWS and Google in the last few years I was at the company.
Marco Argenti (Goldman Sachs): Turning Developers into Clients
- ▶ 0:42 unnamed speaker Prior to Goldman Sachs, Marco was a vice president of technology at AWS, where he ran several business units, including mobile, serverless compute, and augmented and virtual reality.
- ▶ 1:46 unnamed speaker You were, and you were a founder, uh, kind of during early internet, uh, you know, at, at Nokia during mobile at AWS, obviously during kind of the rise of the cloud and now at Goldman, you know, during AI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Marco Argenti Uh, in fact, we launched, uh, a little bit before Amazon, obviously we weren't at success as successful. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:36 unnamed speaker You know, maybe, um, yeah, maybe you can talk about kind of that transition, you know, uh, you know, coming from, you know, business like AWS and Amazon, you know, to financial services, which I, you know, I think was new for you. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:36 unnamed speaker You know, maybe, um, yeah, maybe you can talk about kind of that transition, you know, uh, you know, coming from, you know, business like AWS and Amazon, you know, to financial services, which I, you know, I think was new for you.
- ▶ 14:31 unnamed speaker Obviously AWS was a platform that other people built on.
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 17:10 Ben Horowitz Uh, and so that's really different, and you know, it means, you know, kind of, it's a huge boon for Amazon, of course, uh, and other kind of online retail sorts of things, but it's, it's changed, I think,
- ▶ 28:06 Marc Andreessen Um, like, like Amazon, and then, you know, and then by the way, a shift again from, you know, the, the rise of, of video conferencing, and so the shift from like, you know, hotels, like,
- ▶ 1:16:34 Ben Horowitz And, uh, and yeah, so that kind of thing ends up being, I think Jeff Bezos used to have a thing where he'd have a day a week where he would like focused on just saying thank you to people, um, which is a strong, you know, Amazon, by the… 7 times in the scene
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 53:53 Marc Andreessen And then I would put one other company on the concerning side on this, and I, it's truly to tell, but, um, where they're going to shake out, but, um, you know, Amazon just announced they're investing a lot more money in Anthropic. 4 times in the scene
The Future of AI Is Amazing
- ▶ 8:08 Martin Casado This is kind of Amazon and Google and Salesforce.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 23:14 Chris Dixon Um, in the same way that like, if you have a, if you host your website with rack space or AWS, they can only fuck with you so much, right?
- ▶ 24:14 Chris Dixon Most of your searches now are Google, Google properties.
- ▶ 36:13 Ben Horowitz It worked for a few things like eBay and Amazon and so forth, but it certainly wouldn't have worked for, you know, Facebook or, uh, Twitter or these kinds of things.
- ▶ 1:35:10 Marc Andreessen The book is available in physical bookstores, the book's available on Kindle, and, um, is it also on LibGen, or should we not talk about that?