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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- ▶ 3:08 John Collison Do you also have, like, uh, Amazon Alexa style AI speaker, um, and how many with you, if so?
The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 15:00 Sundar Pichai You know, Amazon has done well since Google came into the picture and Facebook, so we underestimate the growth scenario of how all these things work, right?
Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
- ▶ 11:08 Christina Cacioppo With getting, like, as many SOC tools as we could, just like Salesforce, Slack, AWS, right?
- ▶ 26:11 Christina Cacioppo I'm just gonna, like, give you a bunch of AWS screenshots or API calls.
- ▶ 55:10 John Collison See, Amazon had it figured out, where you had to make your own desk.
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
- ▶ 1:10:00 Bret Taylor And if you just go back to, um, the cloud industry, why, why doesn't Amazon and Microsoft do everything for everyone?
Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
- ▶ 51:55 Garrett Langley I got it for 15 bucks on Amazon.
- ▶ 1:08:09 John Collison And so people buy these, uh, lasers on Amazon.
- ▶ 1:11:14 Garrett Langley Like your average Amazon distribution facility is, you know, 30 acres, 50 acres.
Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
- ▶ 14:30 John Collison And I think Amazon has, I mean, certainly they've optimized the latency of the Amazon experience quite a lot. 4 times in the scene
Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
- ▶ 40:18 Patrick Collison Because like, my AWS bill is not like your AWS bill, and so, but don't you need to know how many instances we're running to know if this is a good deal or not? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:34 Alex Rampell But it's an ancillary thing, which is, you might want to just pre-commit your spend to a particular vendor, and that vendor would love to have that spend pre-committed, even if their Amazon and their cost of capital is very low.
- ▶ 1:01:46 Eric Glyman I think until Amazon took them over, there was a period of time that they did this. 2 times in the scene
Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
- ▶ 20:23 John Collison Maybe founders, because they're often like high-powered individuals who want to have lots of new ideas, they're often thinking about the next thing or like what the second act or the third act is and everyone wants to invent an AWS.
- ▶ 34:39 John Collison E-commerce aggregators, like Amazon and lots of others, have led to, you know, fairly anonymous manufacturers of lots of everyday goods, the kind of Amazon Basics type stuff, at a much lower price point than they, you know, were at…
- ▶ 34:39 John Collison E-commerce aggregators, like Amazon and lots of others, have led to, you know, fairly anonymous manufacturers of lots of everyday goods, the kind of Amazon Basics type stuff, at a much lower price point than they, you know, were at… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:09 Ben Thompson No, Amazon. 7 times in the scene
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 45:01 Satya Nadella Cricket nut, so I kind of, I'm always searching for something, and you know, the problem is, you know, whether it's Amazon or Walmart or what have you, the search experience sometimes is hard on the site.
- ▶ 1:03:16 Satya Nadella Which is, uh, I remember even back in the day when I got started, and obviously Azure got started much later than AWS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:21 Satya Nadella But you got to do as bang of a job as like, you know, Amazon would do with Postgres or MySQL.
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 56:16 Zach Abrams And then when it goes to Walmart, then when it goes to Amazon and so on, it will just change shape.
- ▶ 1:13:00 Henri Stern Um, so, so my hope is that we're able to, at least on the previous side, um, grow the team really sensibly, uh, to a place where we're both delivering extreme value to, like, standalone customers that we have that we can dream of today,…
Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
- ▶ 33:28 Casey Handmer AWS does great business with
How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian
- ▶ 2:46 RJ Scaringe 2019, Amazon invested in the company. 11 times in the scene
Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later
- ▶ 1:02:06 John Collison I think second acts are kind of a bit over-valorized in Silicon Valley somehow, where everyone talks about, oh, we want to do, like, a new AWS is kind of the coolest thing ever, where you do a second thing that is completely unrelated to…
Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 41:15 Marc Andreessen And so for people who don't know this, what happened with the internet boom was there was the sort of internet software and services and Netscape and Amazon and these things.
A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu
- ▶ 0:08 Patrick Collison Can you order your Amazon packages with Devon?
- ▶ 32:20 Scott Wu Devon is obviously entirely focused towards software engineering, but like we order our DoorDash on Devon, you know, we order our Amazon packages with Devon, and it's like, there are pieces of that that turn out to work nicely anyway. 2 times in the scene