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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
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.