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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?
Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
- ▶ 55:10 John Collison See, Amazon had it figured out, where you had to make your own desk.
Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
- ▶ 1:08:09 John Collison And so people buy these, uh, lasers on Amazon.
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
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
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…