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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