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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
The art of letting go with Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn of Dang Foods
- ▶ 25:37 Vincent Kitirattragarn We're still at Amazon.
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
- ▶ 1:34:46 Scott Norton On Amazon, I still have a stockpile.
Yasso: Amanda Klane and Drew Harrington
Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
- ▶ 24:21 Guy Raz It seems like now the model is to really work with transport and delivery companies down the road like UPS and Federal Express and Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:21 Kyle Clark And then domestically, we've been flying trial missions with Amazon and UPS and other customers where we're not allowed to get paid, so we move packages for charity, for example, um, because we don't have FA certification yet.
Solo Stove: Spencer and Jeff Jan
- ▶ 2:13 Guy Raz Spencer and Jeff tapped into Amazon's direct selling platform back in
- ▶ 17:17 Guy Raz So, meantime, I mean, so you've got this website going, but, but Amazon is, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:29 Guy Raz Sell those on Amazon.
- ▶ 29:18 Spencer Jan So eventually then putting it on Amazon, which was another source of traffic and revenue, everything we could think of to bring people to our website. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:08 Spencer Jan But yeah, that was our first foray into Kickstarter, and we did all right, um, and we were pleased with the results, but once Kickstarter's over, it's back to, back to building, uh, you know, our website and selling on Amazon.
- ▶ 38:41 Jeff Jan It was becoming more and more competitive on Amazon.
- ▶ 44:32 Guy Raz I know they were all patented and you filed, you know, you got your patents and it was trademarked and everything, but, um, I'm surprised that there weren't copycats or were there copycats popping up on Amazon? 2 times in the scene
When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light
Orgain: Andrew Abraham
- ▶ 53:08 Andrew Abraham Um, you know, I, I made a listing on Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
- ▶ 42:08 Joel Simkhai Eventually, we went on, we moved to Amazon because they became so expensive, um, but largely because we had, um, implemented them in not a very efficient way.
Delivering the future in drones with Keller Rinaudo Cliffton of Zipline
- ▶ 6:21 Keller Rinaudo Cliffton You know, one is that I met, um, a guy named Mick who had founded a company called Kiva, and probably most people won't know what Kiva Robotics, but they, they had just been acquired by Amazon, and they built these amazing orange robots…
- ▶ 27:59 Guy Raz Obviously, Amazon, you know, sort of famously, Jeff Bezos went on 60 Minutes a couple years ago to talk about this idea, this dream of delivering packages via drones, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:06 Guy Raz I mean, Walmart or, you know, Amazon or whatever.
Spikeball: Chris Ruder
Halo Top Ice Cream: Justin Woolverton
- ▶ 15:39 Justin Woolverton It wasn't good coming straight out of my freezer, but I, when I bought a cheap ice cream maker off Amazon, I ran the concoction through that. 2 times in the scene
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
- ▶ 22:35 Jeff Lawson We would order packages on Amazon so that the UPS truck would come and plow the road for us.
- ▶ 34:26 Guy Raz So, so naturally you go to work for Amazon. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:34 Guy Raz Um, and presumably you moved to Seattle and, and, and you go, I think you went to work for what at the time was a new division, which was AWS, Amazon Web Services, um, which obviously now is, I think this is our biggest engine of revenue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:49 Guy Raz Now you'd worked at AWS.
- ▶ 45:38 Jeff Lawson They were like, oh, the developer thing, I think they were paying attention to AWS, and they said, this is going to be amazing.
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
- ▶ 1:17 Guy Raz As a teenager, that fascination gave way to an interest in computers and other technologies, leading to an early career as a software engineer at Amazon.
- ▶ 1:54 Blake Scholl And Amazon back then was the exclusive retailer for the Segway. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:23 Guy Raz So you ended up, um, working at Amazon for five years, um, and, and left in 2006 to go to a startup called Pelago, which I guess was like a kind of early social media mobile app. 3 times in the scene
Osprey Packs: Mike Pfotenhauer
Chomps: Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali
- ▶ 1:08:24 Rashid Ali So that's where it's like, we were focusing on e-commerce, Amazon, and Trader Joe's, and both were just
HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
- ▶ 36:23 Dave Ferguson So right now, I mean, most of us get umpteen packages delivered from Amazon, FedEx, and others, and there's a challenge associated with trying to do that with a self-driving vehicle, because
Complexly: Hank and John Green
HIBT Lab! Gro Intelligence: Sara Menker
- ▶ 34:42 Sara Menker Like, our AWS account was set up by me, and I remember Googling, what is AWS? 2 times in the scene
Guayakí Yerba Mate: David Karr and Chris Mann
- ▶ 1:06:50 Chris Mann and I were like, we do feel like we need to bring in the expertise to be able to take this to the next level because we, you know, we got to a hundred million without Costco, Walmart, Amazon, any of those big retailers that are usually a…
HIBT Lab! Goodr: Jasmine Crowe-Houston
Roku: Anthony Wood
- ▶ 48:40 Anthony Wood It was not hard to convince, you know, initially it was more like the internet companies like Amazon or YouTube or, you know, Hulu was sort of the internet experimental branch of, of different networks. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:44 Guy Raz Amazon developed a competing product, Google. 3 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz
Ooni Pizza Ovens: Darina Garland and Kristian Tapaninaho
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt
HIBT Lab! Universal Hydrogen: Paul Eremenko
- ▶ 14:23 Paul Eremenko So let's put hydrogen in these modular capsules and move these modular capsules the same way we move Amazon packages, right?
Wirecutter: Brian Lam
HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
- ▶ 20:45 Danielle Walker Gosh, I lived in the Bay Area, so we probably had things in our grocery stores long before some other places in the country, but even still, there were days I'd have to drive to, you know, three or four grocery stores to find what we…
- ▶ 22:21 Danielle Walker I'm spending so much money on all these ingredients and testing it, and I thought, well, I don't really want to charge people money because they all are like me, and they're suffering, and they have autoimmune diseases, and they're just… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:28 Danielle Walker Originally, I just built, like, an Amazon affiliate store, or I would pull other affiliate links in when I was recommending things, but I would quickly find that either they would go out of stock, or the price would change, or the link…
- ▶ 45:47 Guy Raz You can follow How I Built This on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or wherever you're listening right now.
ButcherBox: Mike Salguero
HIBT Lab! Wonder: Marc Lore
Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg
- ▶ 25:31 David Heath I had another idea where, you know, I lived in a walk-up building with no doorman, and I, I'd have to, like, be home to get my packages, and so I thought of this other idea where it'd be, like, a last-mile delivery service that would…
- ▶ 25:56 Guy Raz And then, and then Amazon Locker kind of just... 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! SOURCE Global: Cody Friesen
Rivian: RJ Scaringe
- ▶ 54:39 RJ Scaringe So we went into the LA Auto Show, and we'd, we'd already built a very deep relationship with, with Amazon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:40 Guy Raz For Amazon, right?
- ▶ 1:03:47 Guy Raz Yeah, I mean, and sometimes listeners accuse me of stressing founders out, and I'm not, I don't mean to do that, because you've had a lot of stress over the years, but you've got to deliver a 100,000 vans to Amazon by the end of this… 2 times in the scene
Twitch: Emmett Shear
- ▶ 3:34 Guy Raz Just three years later, Twitch was bought by Amazon for almost a billion dollars, and Emmett is still running the company.
- ▶ 1:16:12 Guy Raz So I want to ask you about the sale of Twitch to Amazon, and we've done this in the show before where we've had many companies that, that were sold and acquired, and in most cases was the right decision, right? 6 times in the scene
Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Houzz: Adi Tatarko
HIBT Lab! Burn Rate: Andy Dunn
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
- ▶ 30:38 Michael Horvath There was a, for us at least a very formative, uh, moment was where, I can't remember if it was the Wall Street Journal started to write about how Amazon was solving this problem with building their own solution for customer service email…
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
Raising Cane's: Todd Graves
HIBT Lab! WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
HIBT Lab! Colin and Samir: Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry
Florentine Films: Ken Burns
Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019)
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- ▶ 3:03 Guy Raz Today, Goodreads is part of Amazon and now has more than a hundred and twenty five million users. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:57 Otis Chandler And then literally two weeks before we were going to launch, we discovered Shelfari, which had two co-founders, three employees, and a million dollars in seed from Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 Otis Chandler So affiliate was, we get, you know, an eight percent cut of a book when we refer a customer to Amazon or Barnes and Noble or somewhere where they buy a book.
- ▶ 51:24 Guy Raz But at this point, I think, 2013, I mean, you guys were, you were getting more views on your book pages than Amazon. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:52 Otis Chandler You know, we, when Kindle launched, which was also late, it changed the book industry. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:08 Guy Raz I mean, Amazon, the biggest bookseller in the world, and you guys have this great platform, and I mean, working with Amazon, you would reach exponentially more people, and you could do things that you could not possibly do with a fifteen… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:43 Guy Raz Um, Amazon announced that, that it would acquire Goodreads in March of 2013, but, uh, presumably, I mean, those conversations started maybe in early 2013, and I have to assume you have to be 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:38 Guy Raz When you sold to Amazon, the sale price has never been disclosed, but there's been all kinds of reporting on it, and I think there's some good reporting on it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:11 Otis Chandler But if Kindle hadn't launched in 2007 and moved, you know, started the digital reading revolution, I don't think Goodreads would have flourished.
Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 17:22 Brian Armstrong I was worried that I had missed my moment with the internet because I had seen these internet companies get created like Google and Amazon and PayPal.
Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
- ▶ 1:08:14 Alejandro Velez At this time, Amazon was really starting to explode, so we put this item on Amazon, and it became the number one selling aquarium. 2 times in the scene
Audible: Don Katz
- ▶ 3:14 Guy Raz And the company is now part of the Amazon family, which bought Audible for three hundred million dollars in 2008.
- ▶ 1:08:16 Guy Raz And in January of 2008, Amazon announced that they would acquire Audible for three hundred million dollars in cash, which, uh, in retrospect, they got a great deal for, you look back on it, um, especially given that your revenue was one… 8 times in the scene
Title Nine: Missy Park
- ▶ 1:12:33 Missy Park We have to shut our headquarters, and then probably the most challenging part for me was our distribution center, which, like Amazon, because it's selling goods that are shipping directly home, could remain open, and also, if we shut that,…
Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
- ▶ 46:44 Noubar Afeyan And a platform is a relatively rare thing in biotechnology, unlike in the tech sector, where we've seen phenomenal examples of platforms, whether it's the iOS, you know, Apple's platform or Amazon's.
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver
- ▶ 27:01 Fawn Weaver And so I began looking into the story even more, and I got on Amazon, and I ordered Jack Daniels Legacy.
KAYAK: Paul English
- ▶ 26:48 Paul English Amazon existed, and there were some big sites, but, you know, your average store down the street didn't have a website yet.
- ▶ 1:05:01 Paul English Yeah, we basically manage every penny that your employees spend, whether they're spending money on Google AdWords, Amazon, AWS, or they're buying lunch for a client, or they're ordering supplies for the office.
- ▶ 1:05:01 Paul English Yeah, we basically manage every penny that your employees spend, whether they're spending money on Google AdWords, Amazon, AWS, or they're buying lunch for a client, or they're ordering supplies for the office.
Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 36:51 Gary Vaynerchuk I mean, that would be like waking up tomorrow and hearing that tick tock sold to Amazon for one trillion dollars.
- ▶ 55:15 Gary Vaynerchuk This 12 to 24 months will create incredibly bad projects that don't bring back value to the person that supported it, but I plan on making my project, for example, the Amazon and eBay of that era. 2 times in the scene