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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Amazon Echo comes up on Big Technology, the a16z Podcast, 20VC, Founders, Top Founders
AssemblyAI Now Handles 4x YouTube's Daily Volume
Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
- ▶ 34:51 Alex Kantrowitz Google has their own set of devices, and Amazon has the Echo in market, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:35 Alex Kantrowitz Could only do it with voice, unlike an echo.
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 10:05 Alex Kantrowitz Um, in the world, maybe out of outside of the Amazon Echo.
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 49:22 Alex Kantrowitz No, I was, I was just saying, I, to myself, I think they are basically saying that, that version of what you just said, which is like, this was, it's almost like, you know, like the, uh, fire phone led to the echo or something.
Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin
- ▶ 22:18 Alex Kantrowitz And we, I mean, we have three Alexa pluses and or echoes in the house and we're talking to Alexa plus all the time. 2 times in the scene
The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)
- ▶ 26:31 John Coogan Amazon could put in Amazon Echoes.
Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
- ▶ 49:27 Alex Kantrowitz Apple has, I mean, Amazon has the Echo.
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:43 John Coogan The Amazon Echo in year two sold eleven million units.
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 24:02 Alex Kantrowitz Remember Amazon has hundreds of millions of Echo devices. 5 times in the scene
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 44:16 Matthias Wagner And that's a fraction of what you pay for an off-the-shelf smartphone and off-the-shelf Alexa device, you name it, right?
Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
- ▶ 2:25 Panos Panay Um, if you buy a new Echo device, we launched four new Echo devices yesterday.
- ▶ 32:33 Panos Panay Just that contextual awareness that's possible, whether it's your, the Ring cameras or the Echo devices. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:24 Alex Kantrowitz So last time you were here, I asked with, uh, I ended with a question of whether I should get an Alexa with, uh, an echo with a screen. 3 times in the scene
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 47:40 Alex Kantrowitz You can call an Uber from, you know, your echo device.
OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
- ▶ 39:49 Alex Kantrowitz I remember when Amazon announced the Echo device and it was so cool because it glowed at the top and talked to you.
Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 13:19 M.G. Siegler Echo devices in, in everyone's homes and, and everywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:51 M.G. Siegler Um, the newer Echo devices with a screen in particular.
May Startup News: Elizabeth Holmes Returns, Billion-Dollar Frauds, & the End of Tech Jobs w/ Jack... · PMF Show
- ▶ 5:52 Pablo Srugo Like a portable echo, I guess, as I could think about it. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- ▶ 9:23 Alex Kantrowitz Remember, we're still living in a society where lots of people don't want the echo in their house because they don't want Amazon listening to them all the time.
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 1:14:17 David Senra Development of the Fire Phone and Echo was started around the same time. 4 times in the scene
Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
- ▶ 30:54 Jamil Ghani You know, on the, on the Alexa device, an Echo device, or in your pocket, um, we just want to make it really simple for our members to take advantage of all that value, right?
How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
- ▶ 1:05 Alex Kantrowitz So I have, uh, three Echo devices in my house. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:22 Daniel Rausch I mean, look, you, you, you told us you have echoes in every room in your home 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:54 Alex Kantrowitz Again, I have, like, first or second generation Echoes in my house. 2 times in the scene
What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- ▶ 26:20 John Coogan Like, I think that, you know, I'm not a crazy auto audiophile, but I can tell the difference between like a nice surround sound setup and like an Amazon Echo.
OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
- ▶ 28:33 Alex Kantrowitz The echo isn't much better. 2 times in the scene
iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
- ▶ 10:38 Ranjan Roy But the Amazon Echo and Alexa have been far, far, far superior for years.
Working with Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 24:41 David Senra He is going to describe the Amazon echo, which is going to sell hundreds of millions of these things.
This solo founder bet on AI 7 years ago. Now he has 5,000 customers & $115M raised. | Dylan, Foun... · PMF Show
Sonos: John MacFarlane
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 1:06:48 David Senra Uh, so he's going to use the example of echo for this. 7 times in the scene
AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 11:14 Alex Kantrowitz Remember, this is the company that loves artificial intelligence and loves robotics so much that Jeff Bezos taped his freaking Echo onto a Roomba,
Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:25:17 Ben Gilbert How is Echo paying anything back?
- ▶ 2:25:23 David Rosenthal I have standardized my house on the Echo ecosystem, and it keeps getting dumber.
- ▶ 2:25:27 David Rosenthal How in this world of incredibly accelerating AI capabilities are my Echoes getting dumber?
Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
- ▶ 13:14 Alex Kantrowitz Don't put your Echo in the microwave.
AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
- ▶ 35:23 Ben Foster I mean, Jeff Bezos has a great one that he uses when he talks about, you know, Amazon Echo or Alexa or, you know, that kind of thing.
Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, Chat...
- ▶ 8:59 Rob Walling Can you imagine when this is built into our Amazon Echoes and the Google homes or whatever, and you can literally just ask the question to actually get an answer because today it's garbage.
What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
- ▶ 9:28 Ian McAllister The role in Alexa, I led Alexa International, so sort of scaling Alexa and Echo to six more countries.
How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 7:30 Alex Kantrowitz It is a hardware manufacturer with the Kindle and the echo, you know, voice computing with Alexa.
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.
- ▶ 4:10:42 David Rosenthal Echo, you know, we, we mentioned it, but.
- ▶ 4:10:46 Ben Gilbert Although Echo, to me, falls under AWS, but maybe not.
Episode 564 | Running a Business with 10,000 Paid Subscribers
- ▶ 40:17 Rob Walling My kids will troll people if they have an Amazon Echo, an A-L-E-X-A, as we say in my house, so we don't trigger it.
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 1:15:26 Chamath Palihapitiya They started Amazon Echo.
MyCroft Raises $5m to Ship Home Speaker Echo Competitor That Doesnt' Suck In Data
- ▶ 4:56 Michael Lewis So a smart speaker is basically something just like the, um, the Amazon, you know, home, uh, assistant or, uh, I'm sorry, Google home, uh, or the, uh, the Amazon echo.
E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- ▶ 19:10 David Friedberg If we just go back a second, talking about the broad, you know, as Chamath called it, kind of this canary in a coal mine, you know, I don't know how many of you guys use an Amazon Echo or a Google Home or Amazon Fire TV or a Nest…
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR
- ▶ 7:16 Robert Frederick I mean, so, so look, I mean, there are, there are the Kindles, and there are the, uh, Echoes, and there are the Fire TVs, and, uh, and you are talking to someone who anticipated that actually happening, uh, so in, in, as an argument, uh,…
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
- ▶ 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 | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 14:22 Tim O'Reilly You know, Amazon showed it with the Echo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:11 Tim O'Reilly Well, I had that conversation with Tony Fadell about why Google didn't do something like the Echo, and he said, could you imagine if it were Google who had first come out,
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 18:18 Benedict Evans But equally, you know, Apple has taken that team and pointed it at the Echo platform. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech Policy and the Courts
- ▶ 18:49 Karen Dunn So, the government had wanted the data in the Amazon Echo.
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 21:35 Sonal Chokshi That the reason Alexa and Echo work so well is because they are in a contained, constrained space. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 13:19 Kyle Russell Again, using lots of terms that Amazon uses actually when talking about the Echo, the other kind of invisible computing product, where it's doing beamforming with the microphone to detect your voice and then lock in on it.
- ▶ 25:25 Kyle Russell Amazon Echo competitors seems like the only, uh,
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 11:35 Sonal Chokshi You didn't mention Amazon, which is sort of the stealth player here with Echo and Alexa. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 13:36 Kyle Russell Looking across these products that we've talked about so far, you know, Google Home, where it's going to be this Amazon Echo competitor, the messaging application with Google kind of discussions baked in where you can talk back and forth…
a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
- ▶ 12:41 Vijay Balasubramaniyan Uh, as these new exciting interfaces come out, right, Amazon rolled out Echo, Facebook bought Wit.ai to, to, you know, integrate all its messaging with voice.
What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- ▶ 15:21 Andrew Chen There's all of these voice activated Google Home, Amazon Echo products that, that are being built with apps in mind.
1164 Want Your Own Alexa, Without Amazon Influence? Mycroft Raises $8m For Opensource Voice Stack
- ▶ 2:16 Josh Montgomery And at the time, Echo didn't exist.
Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:16 Sean Mitchell Like, there, there are apartments, there are apartments in New York where you'll, you know, they'll give you a year worth of Netflix, they'll give you, um, an Amazon Echo.
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 33:35 Terry Angelos I think when you put together in the U S at least what Amazon's trying to do, Google's trying to do with echo and a few other things, you'll see payments just recede into the background.
20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- ▶ 26:04 Kevin Thau Amazon Echo or different displays around your home, and who knows what's gonna happen with AR and VR, that I think the interface for that world doesn't exist, and I think someone should build it, and that's what they want to do.
841: Why He Can Charge $1000 CPMs, $31m Raised Helping Create Better Content
- ▶ 16:24 Nathan Latka You then have the input devices collecting so much voice data with Echo and Google Home and Alexa and all these other things.
20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend
- ▶ 11:40 Nicole Quinn And, you know, we're definitely seeing a strength from a current incumbent in the form of Amazon here, who's definitely done an excellent job of getting Alexa, Echo, Dot, and our show into our homes, you know, over twenty million at the…
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 11:43 Daniel Gross You're seeing this as well with far field experiences, be it with the Apple HomePod or Google's Home or the, or the Echo.
- ▶ 13:46 Daniel Gross The second take is a slightly more dystopian one that I really hope doesn't come to bear, which is that, yeah, it's actually going to be a sustaining innovation for a lot of these large companies, and even if there are new products,…
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 14:13 Benedict Evans At the other extreme, you have kind of frictionless computing, I think, in devices like Alexa, the Amazon Echo, or Snapchat Spectacles, where you don't have any buttons, or any apps, or any intermediate steps. 3 times in the scene
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup
- ▶ 5:52 Zach Hungate We were talking a lot about, uh, voice interfaces way before Amazon Echo existed, and so we're just now at the point where the tech is available to do what we want to do, and it's pretty cool.
- ▶ 9:26 Nathan Latka Is there, you mentioned Amazon Echo a second ago.
Scaling Culture | Jason Kilar, former Hulu CEO · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:39 Jason Kilar And, uh, you know, one public one that has been covered already in the press is the echo team, uh, you know, was working so hard and was so excited about the technology that they had invented.
EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan
- ▶ 19:15 Michael Kaplan And I've got, and by the way, I've got AnyDo connected to my, um, Amazon Echo, which is perfect.
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 22:06 Ted Blosser So I don't think it's just because I got a two echoes, uh, for Christmas, but I would say I would love to be Jeff Bezos and run Amazon.
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 20:46 Sean Flynn I'm a huge fan of Amazon Echo and Alexa. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings And on top of this, Sam is also the founder and co-CEO at Finn, which is basically like Siri, or Echo, or Google Now, except it actually works.
- ▶ 21:54 Sam Lessin I cannot tell you how excited I am about, um, Echo.
20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- ▶ 9:00 Rebecca Kaden And that's hard, and it takes a long time, but we believe that some of the greatest opportunity lies where consumers can use technology, and particularly their mobile device, or maybe their voice, when you think about Echo, um, and maybe… 4 times in the scene
Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 28:59 Ryan Smith Um, we just took another person who was, was pretty integral in launching Echo.