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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 21:10 Packy McCormick Like, it does remind you of another Seattle company, Amazon, uh, in that, like, that you really need to get your costs right, and they're the best by far at doing that.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 56:18 Packy McCormick Amazon had a fashion show and I tried to examine Amazon strategy through the lens of this fashion show and, you know, like did a bunch of those like direct pop culture X business strategy type essays.
- ▶ 1:05:21 Packy McCormick And it is a glorified Kindle for me.
- ▶ 1:47:37 Packy McCormick Maybe there's a little, a little, I'm not comparing myself to Jeff Bezos here, but like a little bit of the Amazon shareholder thing, right?
- ▶ 1:47:43 Packy McCormick Where like he had to work his ass off to get the shareholders that would actually appreciate what Amazon was doing.
- ▶ 2:12:29 Packy McCormick It's like AWS for a venture firm with a little bit of like, also the person doing, you know, like, let's say I'm not technical, like also the person doing the integration and setting up AWS in the first place.
- ▶ 2:51:58 Packy McCormick Maybe it helps you get a quicker leg up into an, uh, an area where you feel that you're behind, but I think you're absolutely right that like Amazon was not just making that decision based on Kiva's revenue and client roster because that…