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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
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
Robert Reffkin: Compass
- ▶ 2:18 Guy Raz But as he considered ideas for a business that wasn't dominated by Google or Amazon or Apple or Facebook,
- ▶ 34:30 Robert Reffkin And we just started talking about it, and the idea was, what's, what's an industry that's really, really big, that the big companies, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, aren't competing within, and it really came down to real…
- ▶ 1:07:30 Robert Reffkin It's not just, you know, is Amazon a bookstore or a technology company?
Casper: Philip Krim
- ▶ 44:09 Philip Krim My co-founder, Neil, had a brilliant idea at one point to send customers who were delayed on their products, uh, aerobeds that we would buy on Amazon and ship to our customers via our Amazon account, just as a way to say, like, sorry, if… 4 times in the scene
Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
- ▶ 57:23 Rich Barton And, and this transition from offline to online, from legacy to digital, it was, in real estate, it was accelerated, just like e-commerce was accelerated for Amazon, and just like, you know, Netflix became even more essential.
- ▶ 59:14 Rich Barton As long as we as a team and our investors truly believe in the long-term growth opportunity, investors are more than willing to take, you know, not much profit in the short term for a chance at a much bigger business in the long term, and…
Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald
- ▶ 1:11:30 Jennifer Fitzgerald Uh, we look at our journey similar to Amazon or Netflix, uh, which started in the third party world. 2 times in the scene
Diapers.com & Jet.com: Marc Lore
- ▶ 0:53 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Mark Lorre took an idea guaranteed to lose him money selling diapers online, built an e-commerce giant, sold it to Amazon, and then went head-to-head with them by building an even bigger business,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:53 Marc Lore Not even Amazon at the time.
- ▶ 41:32 Guy Raz Now we're going to get into the chapter of your life where you begin to encounter Amazon. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:49 Marc Lore Yeah, now you just sparked my memory, but, uh, that's when they told us that they were launching Amazon Mom, which was a program designed to get moms into their membership program, and it was really driven by diapers.
- ▶ 51:40 Guy Raz So Mark is running Quidzy at Amazon, but it's not a super happy period in his life. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:52 Marc Lore Now I wanted to give Doug, Walmart, and their board the very best I've got, because it was very different than the Amazon experience. 4 times in the scene
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Katie Mitchell & Celena Gill
- ▶ 7:55 Katie Mitchell You can go to Amazon, you can go to thrift stores, Barnes & Noble.
Robinhood: Vlad Tenev
UPPAbaby: Bob and Lauren Monahan
Boxed: Chieh Huang
- ▶ 3:30 Guy Raz Amazon, Walmart, Costco, Target, Kroger, you name it.
- ▶ 1:08:47 Guy Raz What I'm, I'm curious about in, even in 2014, as Amazon and, you know, today it's even more of a 10,000 pound gorilla, let's say, but in 2014 it already was. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:34 Guy Raz What, how, how big of a game changer was it for you guys, both good and bad, when Amazon purchased Whole Foods in 2017? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:34 Guy Raz Companies that you have exclusive partnerships with, but I wonder, I mean, in a world where Amazon is the 10,000 pound gorilla, can you imagine, I mean, would you be okay down the road at, at, at being acquired?
Simple Mills: Katlin Smith
- ▶ 22:21 Katlin Smith Yeah, I actually started selling through the Simple Mills website and also Amazon before I got the product into Whole Foods. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:02 Guy Raz And then driving to the airport, and then flying back to Atlanta, because I'm assuming when you got an order in from Amazon or your website, they were in your apartment, you were, like, shipping them out yourself? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:50 Guy Raz And already her muffin mix is doing pretty well on Amazon.
- ▶ 38:01 Katlin Smith And it was pretty soon into after I started at Booth that we became the best-selling muffin mixes on Amazon, and I, around that time, just kind of realized I was