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America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild
- ▶ 28:37 Kevin Mandia The, the amazing thing about AI, shift change, it reminds me almost like when we all went to cloud, ah, you know, when we started using AWS or something.
How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale
Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 13:02 unnamed speaker The primitives of it, EC-II for compute and S-III for storage. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 unnamed speaker The primitives of it, EC-II for compute and S-III for storage. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:08 unnamed speaker So if you go to Amazon Web Services, there's two primitives.
- ▶ 13:28 unnamed speaker Amazon, Microsoft, and Google primarily have been able to move up the stack into managed services. 2 times in the scene
AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 18:33 Kevin Mandia You know, Google and Microsoft and others and Amazon, everybody wants to impose risks or repercussions.
- ▶ 24:22 Kevin Mandia The, the amazing thing about AI, shift change, it reminds me almost like when we all went to cloud, ah, you know, and we started using AWS or something.
Secret Tech Billionaire Is Betting $1B on This · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 35:15 Joe Liemandt And so she literally filled her Amazon card up and would look at it every day.
What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 38:14 Zachary Levi Amazon, 3 times in the scene
How AI Agents Are Transforming Logistics · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:06 Joe Lonsdale Tell us a bit about working on Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:05 Joe Lonsdale You were at Amazon,
- ▶ 5:04 Joe Lonsdale You started off after, uh, Amazon is for a while as well, right?
- ▶ 5:07 Joe Lonsdale Tell us a bit about the working on Amazon. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:24 Harish Abbott And then, you know, Jeff sort of incubated the Kindle project, which, if you look back, could be like, oh, you're 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:15 Joe Lonsdale Is there anything else that you've taken from there and said, like, we want to do this like Amazon does it? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:40 Joe Lonsdale It was very clear that a lot of these businesses didn't have what Amazon had, and we were thinking about it and talking to all the smartest people and they led us to you. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:51 Harish Abbott Yeah, this, like, deliver was, like, our long-term ambition was, like, hey, the physical world is such a large industry, it's not programmable today, and let's make physical world programmable, let's make, build an AWS for the physical… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:41 Harish Abbott Like if you think about, uh, just e-commerce, they're used, you know, now you have between Walmart, Amazon, Shopify, and maybe a few other players, you've got like close to 50, 60% market share.
From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 12:22 Marc Andreessen Seattle, to give you a sense how crazy things are, the, the, the district in Seattle, the city council district where the most Microsoft and Amazon executives lived, live, uh, elected a, a city council woman who's, who ran a platform of… 2 times in the scene
The Truth About AI: Sam Lessin’s Contrarian Take · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:31 Sam Lessin We were really early adopters of Amazon Web Services. 2 times in the scene
Ex-Bud Light President: The Truth Behind the Brand’s Collapse · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 42:04 Anson Frerichs I think into corporate America, you're seeing again, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Facebook, Meta, all dropping a lot of their DEI and ESG policies.
AI Vs Engineers: Will They Be Replaced? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 4:09 Dylan Sirota So you've got Google offices all over, you've got Amazon offices all over, and so that is taking kind of the great potential of a talent pool, training them, and now they're really, ah, there's a lot of different markets that are coming to…
Turning $25K Into $3 Billion: The Hard Truths Of Jimmy John's Success · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 26:19 Jimmy John Liautaud I mean, I use Amazon all the time, but still.
Ep 81: How Palantir Star Tyler Scriven Is Helping Small Business Compete With Amazon · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 24:56 Joe Lonsdale And, and Amazon's more than half of it, but you're helping everyone else, basically, because everyone else is a mess, basically, or a lot of other ones are.
Ep 75: Leadership Lessons with Intuit Founder & Silicon Valley Legend Scott Cook · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 18:11 Scott Cook And I was just touring Amazon's newest and largest, excuse me, newest and most modern warehouse, which is in Tracy, California, about two hours south of here. 2 times in the scene
Ep 73: Lessons from Palantir & How Candid Health Is Fixing the $280B Healthcare Billing Fiasco · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 26:20 Doug Proctor So maybe not your investment portfolio, but like, you, you bought something on Amazon.
Ep 70: Andrew McAfee on the Science Behind the World's Most Valuable Companies · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 14:51 Andrew McAfee Amazon is one of my favorite examples, because they're a gigantic company now, but they still have this philosophy of, like, kind of, what's, what's the minimum amount of production? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 Andrew McAfee That's the birth of Amazon Web Services, and to a large extent, the cloud industry now, and also this organizational decoupling.
Ep 67: Brad Gerstner on the AI Supercycle & Restoring Faith in Capitalism · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 16:28 Brad Gerstner I think Amazon Code Whisperer, so this is a code generation co-pilot. 2 times in the scene
Ep 62: Ben Rubenstein Says Resumes Are Useless; Here's How to Find the Best Salespeople · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 21:53 Ben Rubinstein Or AWS is another example, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:55 Ben Rubinstein Amazon says, you know, back in the old days, we don't worry about servers.
Ep 61: High School Dropout to Billion-Dollar Startup; the Story of Guillermo Rauch & Vercel · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 19:57 Guillermo Rauch And what's important here is that when your company invests in these things, like companies like Amazon have perfected the buy button.
- ▶ 20:58 Guillermo Rauch Like Walmart did not invent, did not have the luxury of inventing the cloud like Amazon AWS did.
- ▶ 25:06 Guillermo Rauch The problem is that if you're selling cameras, and you have a great camera company, you are now expected to perform to the same level of Amazon.com or TikTok.com because that's what people are now used to.
- ▶ 42:56 Guillermo Rauch Uh, we, we just had Scott talking about the early days of being a board member at Amazon and Amazon was obsessed with shipping velocity and reliability. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:06 Guillermo Rauch We talked about like incredible smart people at Amazon said like this type of button, this type of product description converts better.
Ep 56: A Philosopher Reinventing Construction? Maria Davidson & the Story of Kojo · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 13:40 Maria Davidson They have been using Amazon, and they're used to.
- ▶ 18:00 Maria Davidson Now you had both that dynamic coupled with this generational shift of people saying, well, you know, I use DoorDash to order food and I use Amazon to order goods.
John Chambers & Pankaj Patel Changed the World with Cisco. Now They're Doing It Again with Nile. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:24 Pankaj Patel So what Amazon did for computing is what Nile is doing for networking.
- ▶ 19:13 Pankaj Patel I mean, AWS was just coming out, right?
- ▶ 21:29 John Chambers Think about what Amazon did in the cloud.
How Psychedelic Medicine Could Transform Healthcare | Why Medical School Is Broken · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 5:03 Sebastian Caliri Amazon was far more helpful to many Americans than anything the government did, and I think that, I think that that's something that, um, a lot of college students don't, don't necessarily see.
He Built Tesla's FIRST Roadster Battery. Find Out What He's Building Next! · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 21:01 Gene Berdachevsky And it's not just, you know, spinning up AWS, uh, uh, servers, right?
Dr. Mark Esper: Lessons from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 30:12 Dr. Mark Esper it comes out May 10th, and, uh, you can order now if you want on Amazon or any other major bookseller.
Arthur Brooks: Finding Happiness -- What Most People Get Wrong and Few Get Right · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 11:07 Arthur Brooks These days, who knows, it's probably like, you know, the bedroom for Amazon or something, right?
Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 4:46 Bari Weiss I think that there in some way, this is just kind of like an incredible distraction because isn't it easier for Amazon, let's say, or Facebook to put out a statement about DNI than it is for them to confront the fact that they're…
- ▶ 19:42 Bari Weiss People like are used to like clicking a button and getting, you know, their Amazon Haagen-Dazs delivered.