Amazon Prime, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon Prime comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 3:31:51 Ben Gilbert Than an ESPN or that a TV network could because Amazon can get you as a prime subscriber.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:13:42 David Rosenthal It's almost like, uh, like Amazon and streaming, you know, like prime video, which we'll talk about later.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:31:23 Ben Gilbert So we were sort of poo-pooing the Amazon Prime partnership and saying, oh, they weren't hitting targets and they had to do make goods.
- ▶ 3:31:34 Ben Gilbert So in the 2025 season, Thursday Night Football on Prime averaged 50
- ▶ 3:32:26 Ben Gilbert And on the Black Friday game on Prime, that was up 21% year over year, and probably the biggest sign either that it's working or
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:48:59 Ben Gilbert Now, as we said, Sebastian was kind enough to help us with prep for this episode, but I actually learned most of this from watching a twenty-year-old Nova documentary that is available on Amazon Prime Video, thanks to Brett Taylor for…
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:13:22 David Rosenthal And that, you know, led to so many things, Amazon Prime among them.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:57:25 David Rosenthal And you can really see the fingerprints of this DNA in Amazon Prime.
- ▶ 1:57:33 David Rosenthal Now, obviously the whole thing is inspired by the Costco membership writ large, but these same dynamics definitely play out for Prime members at Amazon of order more frequently, much more likely to renew, access a whole suite of services.
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:19:16 David Rosenthal Amazon, with Prime, can offer way more value than anybody else.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:04:21 Ben Gilbert And of course, then they get to Prime, and they get to Prime now, and now they're trying to do one day Prime, and all sorts of things can happen the same day if you're spoiled like me and live in Seattle.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:13 David Rosenthal And then later he would leave Amazon team up with Bill Carr who ran prime video.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 3:13:10 David Rosenthal So that, I mean, the Kindle itself, incredible story, but then that leads to Fire tablets, Echoes, the lady who lives in your Echo, Fire TV, Prime Video, Ring, Eero, like all this stuff, and freaking Audible.
- ▶ 3:14:20 Ben Gilbert Like, I really want to dig into Prime, but let's save that for Playbook, because I feel like that's gonna be a good place to hit sort of what's going on there.
- ▶ 3:21:06 Ben Gilbert And there's this amazing one that he gives at Stanford, at GSB, literally the week that Amazon Prime first launched.
- ▶ 3:22:23 Ben Gilbert And what he's describing is the most perfect, vivid example of scale economies, where once they get all these customers, and once they acquire them all to prime, so they are all loyal, subscribed, guaranteed to shop here customers, then…
- ▶ 3:23:12 David Rosenthal Maybe now actually is the right place to talk a little bit about prime and this dynamic.
- ▶ 3:23:45 David Rosenthal So, you mentioned Prime.
- ▶ 3:28:37 Ben Gilbert I think he sort of realized one of the effects you were talking about, which is once you've made your deposit, you're 79 dollars a year to Prime, you're gonna keep shopping on Amazon.
- ▶ 3:28:42 Ben Gilbert as “Prime”
- ▶ 3:28:52 Ben Gilbert as “Prime”
- ▶ 3:29:03 Ben Gilbert as “Prime”
- ▶ 3:30:59 Ben Gilbert as “Prime”
- ▶ 3:31:03 Ben Gilbert Wow.
- ▶ 3:31:08 Ben Gilbert I'm pretty sure they lose money on just Prime if I'm thinking about my own habit.
- ▶ 3:31:21 Ben Gilbert Absolutely.
- ▶ 3:32:03 David Rosenthal But because of Prime and this kind of guarantee to all these people who sign up for Prime that you're gonna get two-day shipping,
- ▶ 3:32:07 David Rosenthal as “Prime”
- ▶ 3:48:41 Ben Gilbert Well, and that's where Prime is really this on steroids.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 2:07:27 Ben Gilbert Which is a prime competitor.
- ▶ 2:07:28 David Rosenthal Right, which is a prime competitor.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:08:04 David Rosenthal It's like a prime membership.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:03:53 Brendan Eich People, not just Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, et cetera.