Akamai

3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 5, 2026 by Jeanne DeWitt Grosser · said 9 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Feb 5, 2026 neutral
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Grosser: Nike self-hosts Next.js on Akamai rather than using Vercel
“Nike's on Next.js. They're not on Vercel. They, you know, have Akamai as their CDN and WAF.”
Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 26:37 Executive Function: Build systems that can decide without you | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)
Aug 27, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Parikh pushed Zuckerberg to prioritize engineering efficiency over pure product features
“You know, I remember talking to Mark and Mark was like, yeah, we can, you know, we have money, so we should just build features and we should put all the engineers working on product. And I said, cool, but I'm going to work on efficiency because I'm not going …”
Jay Parikh Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:02:57 The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
Aug 27, 2026 negative
Insight
Hyper-scale technology companies fundamentally cannot rely on third-party infrastructure vendors
“When you take some layer of your kind of core stack, and it's like outsourced to this vendor, and vendor, you know, could be great, but when I was at these companies that were, you know, Kind of N of one in terms of what they were doing scale wise. They weren'…”
Jay Parikh Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 50:21 The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
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