Amazon

“And one of the places where we see this really becoming a problem right now, and I think this is downstream of us all having so much success using Amazon, is that we really see the rise again of internal platforms and teams taking dependencies on, on these int…”

“Retail giants such as Amazon who have set consumer expectations to be like, sky, sky high around free and fast shipping. So there's a mismatch in like what an online merchant can deliver versus what the consumer expectations are.”

“EBay, Yahoo, Amazon were some of the few companies that survived that forest fire. And so what it meant was from 2001 to 2005, they kind of had their pick of talent.”

“How long did Amazon spend trying to graft a marketplace onto Amazon? Nine years, I think, given their first efforts before it finally worked, but that wasn't an accident.”

“My friends and colleagues from eBay, I don't want to upset them too much, but it does look like Amazon got the better end of that. They absorbed that innovation in a better way or more profitable way.”

“Zoox raised a billion dollars, sort of sold for a billion dollars. That wasn't the right way. And even under Amazon, we don't see tons of Zoox vehicles outside. So there was a misunderstanding of the cost structure of how we're going to get this technology out…”

“If Bezos were no longer CEO of Amazon, you know, the businesses, I think the business would suffer, but I don't think that the business, like, if Elon were no longer the CEO of SpaceX, I think that would be a huge problem. Amazon is in really tough spaces, tou…”

“Amazon had a system that was actually built in, I believe imitation of Kafka called Kinesis. So it was incompatible, but kind of looked roughly like it. And that was popular. And we were like, oh man, that's going to take the opportunity. And if it doesn't, Th…”

“This is in, you know, March or April of 2000, sorry, in 1998, right? And Jeff wants us to launch in October, right? And so, roll forward. October of 1998, we launch Amazon. I'm in every mahogany boardroom for every movie studio. So I went from, like, can't get…”