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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
How to Identify Top 1% Talent (Keith Rabois, Investor in Doordash, YouTube, Airbnb & Lyft)
- ▶ 18:29 Keith Raboi Think Google, think Apple, think Amazon, think Microsoft, or even these days open AI.
Always Be Shipping
- ▶ 6:35 Alex Lieberman So I just have this belief that like at some of the fastest growing companies right now, whether it's Stripe or Shopify or Amazon, there are so many internal tools being used at these companies, at these high growth companies that are… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:54 Alex Lieberman Like you even think about Amazon, AWS was effectively an internal infrastructure where amazon.com was the first customer, and then it was turned into a productized offering for other people.
7-Figure Business in 48 Hours
- ▶ 11:26 Alex Lieberman Basically, any product you'd find on Amazon's bestseller list would work here.
- ▶ 21:08 Alex Lieberman You can do this process with Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Reddit, eBay, Amazon, etc.
Why Software is Eating the World
- ▶ 7:14 Alex Lieberman Running that same application today in Amazon's cloud costs about 1500 dollars a month.
- ▶ 8:39 Alex Lieberman Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:28 Alex Lieberman On top of that, while Borders was thrashing in the throes of impending bankruptcy, Amazon rearranged its website to promote its Kindle digital books over physical books for the first time.
- ▶ 19:20 Alex Lieberman It's not an accident that many of the biggest recent technology companies, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and more, are American companies.
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
- ▶ 7:16 Alex Lieberman AWS or Amazon Web Services, high upfront cost of the servers that they had to pay for to operate the cloud, and then they are able to spread that high fixed cost across more and more customers that rent cloud storage from AWS. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:59 Alex Lieberman Amazon.
- ▶ 20:19 Alex Lieberman A good example for talent is Amazon, who, according to the information, has a 3 times in the scene
How to Get Your First 1,000 Users
- ▶ 11:50 Alex Lieberman It's the marketplace for, I think of it as like the Amazon for service professionals.
Second Job of a Startup CEO
- ▶ 16:14 Alex Lieberman You don't have to go as far as Jeff Bezos and his team at Amazon do, requiring six-page memos for every strategic meeting, but writing your mission to metrics framework in long form will help you be more thorough and catch flaws in your…
Visionary vs. Fraud
- ▶ 10:48 Alex Lieberman Can we build a better phone for Prime members?
1,000 True Fans
- ▶ 12:05 Alex Lieberman You could be a new author who decides to sell their book on Amazon, and you are hypothetically one click away from James Clear's Atomic Habits on Amazon.com. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:30 Alex Lieberman Some large percentage of their sales are through their website, where they have a direct relationship with their customer, but they still use platforms, whether it be Alibaba or Baidu or Amazon, because these platforms still have access to…
25 Lessons in 25 Years
- ▶ 6:26 Alex Lieberman If you remember, this is exactly how I said Jeff Bezos built his culture when running Amazon, and the beauty of running a lean startup is it gives you something that big competitors don't have.
- ▶ 12:27 Alex Lieberman And Bill gives the best example because it's one that I recently talked about when reading through the 1997 Amazon shareholder letter.
A Founder’s Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
- ▶ 5:10 Sahil Lavingia And, you know, the way you do that is by basically having some idea for this like really large market, having some software product that you build, you hire, you know, you raise some venture capital, you hire some engineers, you use AWS,…
- ▶ 25:05 Sahil Lavingia Like you've seen Bezos leave Amazon.
How to Spend a Startup’s $ Wisely
- ▶ 15:50 Alex Lieberman In theory, it actually should be easier today with AWS instead of servers that are on premise with AI.
- ▶ 17:43 Alex Lieberman You cannot just expect this will happen, and if you listen to my episode on Jeff Bezos' first Amazon shareholder letter, you'll see how much he talks about the importance of frugality because
The First Amazon Shareholder Letter: Summarized & Analyzed
- ▶ 0:21 Alex Lieberman I'm talking about the very first Amazon shareholder letter written by Jeff Bezos the year that the company went public. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:54 Alex Lieberman At the end of 1997, Amazon filed its first annual report as a public company after IPO-ing in May of that year, just three years after founding the business. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:04 Alex Lieberman He says, Amazon.com passed many milestones in 1997. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:32 Alex Lieberman Next, he goes into the long-term orientation of Amazon and its goals, showing just how clear of a vision he had for the business. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:29 Alex Lieberman He says, Given Amazon was focused on being the biggest player in online commerce, to me, it makes total sense why revenue growth, customer retention, and brand were prioritized.
- ▶ 8:16 Alex Lieberman It's an acknowledgement that many companies manage their business to quarterly goals and expectations, but Amazon is not such a business, so if you have that expectation, Amazon is probably not the investment for you, and that's what Bezos… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:12 Alex Lieberman And this is exactly what Amazon was known for in. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:39 Alex Lieberman Next part of the letter is focused on Amazon's customers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:39 Alex Lieberman By many measures, Amazon.com came a long way in 1997. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:51 Alex Lieberman I hope you've enjoyed this teardown and analysis of the first ever Amazon shareholder letter.
A $20m Business with No Meetings, Deadlines or Full-Time Employees
- ▶ 11:03 Sahil Lavingia And what you get out of hourly, just like Uber, just like Airbnb, just like instances on AWS, you get efficiency. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 Sahil Lavingia Obviously it's much harder to spin up like a engineering team than like a set of EC two servers.
- ▶ 29:42 Alex Lieberman You know, to, to use the, the tired, uh, analogy, the AWS for kind of like what I would call like modular or scaled knowledge work.