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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
- ▶ 1:27 RJ Scaringe And we launched our truck, our R-I-T, its sibling variant, the R-I-S, uh, and then a commercial van with Amazon as the lead customer.
- ▶ 12:49 RJ Scaringe And, you know, Amazon is, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:14 Guy Raz Amazon wrote down their shares.
Shooting for the moon with Steve Altemus of Intuitive Machines
Wondery: Hernan Lopez
- ▶ 1:40 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Hernan Lopez saw the early promise of podcasts and left a corporate job to start Wondery, a podcast platform that eventually sold to Amazon for hundreds of millions of dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:49 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, why Hernan says no to a new offer to buy Wondery before saying yes to Amazon, and how his life turns upside down when he's embroiled in a federal bribery case.
- ▶ 1:07:36 Hernán López And w, there were lots of conversations, uh, in the board and some people wanted us to continue to build, but ultimately we came to the conclusion that taking, uh, the deal with Amazon was in the best interest of the company. 3 times in the scene
Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo
Everlane: Michael Preysman
When a robot cooks your lunch with Steve Ells of Chipotle and Kernel
Kona Ice: Tony Lamb
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