Amazon Web Services, every mention

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▶ 5:27:29 Ben Gilbert You know, you think AWS, Azure, Microsoft, and Google Cloud.
▶ 6:10:52 Ben Gilbert They're a AWS scale technology company, but they don't take outside customers, so they only have to build for their own internal use cases.

▶ 2:37:23 Ben Gilbert So back to Pilot, and speaking of Bill, we talk all the time on Acquired about one of his Seattle neighbors, Jeff Bezos, and the AWS-inspired axiom that startups should focus on what makes your beer taste better.
▶ 3:21:14 David Rosenthal Yeah, Amazon can go from e-commerce to AWS.
▶ 3:45:49 unnamed speaker AWS.
▶ 3:46:03 Ben Gilbert We are platform as a service, which was distinctly different than AWS, which was we are infrastructure as a service.
▶ 3:50:01 David Rosenthal On the other hand, the counterargument to that is, this is actually Microsoft's competitive advantage versus AWS.
▶ 4:20:16 David Rosenthal Actually, I would say they had some of it in the development of Azure, because they could say to Fortune 500, we will do hybrid cloud with you, and we can be your trusted partner in a way that AWS couldn't.
▶ 4:20:30 Ben Gilbert Counterposition against AWS.
▶ 4:22:04 Ben Gilbert Yeah, the question is, did they become more trusted by the enterprise, where if you're offered the exact same service from Microsoft and AWS, are you more willing to pay Microsoft for it?
▶ 4:50:01 Ben Gilbert Well, with that, you should check out our previous episode, Microsoft Volume One, if you've already heard that, check out our AWS episode.

▶ 2:08:58 David Rosenthal We talk all the time on Acquired about Jeff Bezos' AWS-inspired axiom that startups should focus on what makes your beer taste better.

▶ 22:02 David Rosenthal There is a local startup coming out of the University of Washington called the Computer Center Corporation, or C-Cubed, and the business plan behind C-Cubed was that they were gonna get a bunch of decks, a bunch of PDP, eights, tens, 11,…
▶ 2:24:39 Ben Gilbert Well, back to Pilot, and speaking of incredibly successful Seattle business people, we talk all the time on Acquired about Jeff Bezos' AWS-inspired axiom that startups should focus on what makes their beer taste better, i.e. only spend…

▶ 26:31 Ben Gilbert This actually reminds me a bit of our episode on Amazon and AWS on how companies can take
▶ 2:50:20 David Rosenthal This is AWS.
▶ 2:50:24 David Rosenthal They were Amazon, and they added AWS.
▶ 2:50:27 David Rosenthal And they are adding AWS.

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