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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 1:16:31 David Senra Bezos has this great line about building Amazon.
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 1:30:06 Travis Kalanick It's got Amazon warehouses everywhere, or like major hubs, like big distribution centers, DCs. 2 times in the scene
The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
- ▶ 38:23 David Senra One of the smartest things a company can do is, like, identify the things that don't change, and if you could, he identified three at the beginning of Amazon, and if you could invest heavily in them decade after decade because you know the…
Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
- ▶ 3:45 Jonathan Ross Like, things where there's risk, you know, I'll spin up a, a server in GCP or AWS, and I'll just start building stuff.
The Marketing Genius of Steve Stoute
- ▶ 33:55 Steve Stoute If, like anything else, you go on Amazon, it's like, if you buy this, then you buy that, right?
The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 2:42 Gustav Söderström Like Amazon is, is, uh, organized in a certain way, trillion dollar company, Apple in another way, also trillion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:46 Gustav Söderström The time you spend on, on, you know, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Amazon, TikTok, all of them.
- ▶ 49:38 David Senra He talks about why he invented the Kindle. 4 times in the scene
Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
- ▶ 20:21 David Senra And then people like Jeff Bezos happened to pick up the book and use some of those ideas to build Amazon, which made
Dana White: The Man Behind the UFC
- ▶ 20:15 Dana White Paramount, YouTube, Amazon, you know, uh, Netflix.
Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
- ▶ 5:40 Adam Foroughi What was challenging for VCs back then was, well, Google and Facebook and Amazon are in this space, and
- ▶ 51:17 Adam Foroughi And the proof for this was Amazon does this all the time, right?
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 26:59 David Baszucki And so rather than going down this cloud path, um, I would say right when we were starting Roblox, AWS was just starting to be a thing and S three was just starting to be a thing.
- ▶ 26:59 David Baszucki And so rather than going down this cloud path, um, I would say right when we were starting Roblox, AWS was just starting to be a thing and S three was just starting to be a thing. 2 times in the scene
Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
- ▶ 38:33 David Senra This is like Amazon, almost the exact like mirror of what Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:17 David Senra This is like, Bezos has that line about Amazon Prime.
- ▶ 58:36 David Senra He obviously did a ton of customer support at the very beginning of Amazon.
- ▶ 1:24:54 Tony Xu There was Uber, there was Amazon, um, uh, uh, who were either coming in or who already were in or announcing, you know, um, more expansion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:18 Tony Xu And when you look at, I think, and one of the reasons why I think Amazon is inspiring, or a lot of these big tech companies now actually, is they tend to do two things at the same time.
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 28:21 Marc Andreessen And we were to the point where it's just like, there's no reason to ever go to a department store because it's got less selection than Walmart and Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:14 Marc Andreessen So we built the first e-commerce system for selling things online. 2 times in the scene
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 53:23 Brian Armstrong I've tried to take bits and like parts from Google, Amazon, um,
- ▶ 1:06:24 David Senra That was the codename of Amazon in D.E.
- ▶ 1:43:04 Brian Armstrong Like, they might need to spin up AWS resources or,
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 40:10 Jason Fried Um, like we just recently left the cloud, left AWS, and we're running our own stuff now in data centers.
- ▶ 1:02:55 David Senra The first time we met, I showed you the Amazon.
- ▶ 2:07:06 Jason Fried And the examples he gave us were, um, something like, 10 years from now, people are not gonna wake up and go, I wish Amazon's customer service was worse. 6 times in the scene
Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- ▶ 11:49 David Senra When he said that setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been, and will continue to be, the single most important element of Amazon's success.
- ▶ 44:59 David Senra And he realized he had a sticky product with Amazon because he saw that once you become an Amazon customer, you, not only do you order, but you reorder and then you ask Amazon to carry more things. 3 times in the scene
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 35:08 David Senra And when I hear you talk about that, I think of that the time when Amazon stock, 2 times in the scene
John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- ▶ 45:50 John Mackey One of the greatest, most satisfying things, particularly as Whole Foods was a public company before Amazon bought us for public for 25 years, independent.
- ▶ 52:32 David Senra You know, I don't remember what the market capital of Amazon is.