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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
- ▶ 48:54 Brett Berson And so instead of, you know, leveraging AWS, you build your own and optimize your own data centers. 2 times in the scene
Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
- ▶ 32:17 Graham Moreno There's not one right way to do it, and man, like, Amazon has been so successful with this, like, we don't want agreement. 3 times in the scene
Inside Artemis' "AI vs AI" war | Shachar Hirshberg & Dan Shiebler (Co-founders, Artemis)
- ▶ 4:24 Josh Koppelman Shachar, you got to know the customer and the product very well from your time at AWS and Palo Alto.
- ▶ 8:04 Josh Koppelman Shahar, you knew you wanted to start a company and you spent a lot of time sorting through ideas before you were ready to leave AWS.
- ▶ 32:27 Shachar Hirshberg When I was in AWS, you were the defaults, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:18 Shachar Hirshberg So part of the reason we started the company at the times we started was because we have seen the threat landscape change from our purview at AWS and abnormal security where we saw
Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)
- ▶ 0:21 Christopher Payne It turned out to be Amazon by a mile because of this reason. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:06 Christopher Payne I worked at Amazon.
- ▶ 16:25 Christopher Payne It was all about data, right?
- ▶ 19:02 Christopher Payne At Amazon, I, I would say that, um, David Risher was my boss. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:39 Christopher Payne Although I run, I was at Amazon, which is tough environment as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:01 Brett Berson You said that Amazon was very hard, but hard in a different way. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:03 Christopher Payne Being in a company that's growing like a DoorDash or an Amazon circa that period of time forces you to get good at that because you're going to fail, right?
- ▶ 55:39 Christopher Payne Once you lose credibility of nothing, having gone through these things, like I often just point back to these things, like, look, like lots of people left Amazon, myself included, actually in 2001, amazon.bomb. 2 times in the scene
How to build a company when you’re not an optimist | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)
- ▶ 30:44 Jay Kreps But at that point, everybody believed it was just really AWS.
- ▶ 31:03 Jay Kreps It's really just Amazon.
- ▶ 37:51 Jay Kreps And, you know, at that time, you know, as we launched, Amazon had a, a system that was actually built in, I, I believe imitation of Kafka called Kinesis. 3 times in the scene
The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
- ▶ 2:00 Jeremy Epling Everything was built on AWS.
Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)
- ▶ 48:50 Chris Degnan We're competing against Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, right?
Executive Function: Build systems that can decide without you | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)
- ▶ 29:42 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser We had a lot of this at Stripe, where you had AWS, you know, consumption-based business model.
How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 1:04:27 Jyoti Bansal I would say the, the company I admire a lot and, uh, the person would be Amazon and how Bezos build Amazon. 3 times in the scene
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- ▶ 9:52 Zack Kanter And then once you get that within three months, I had their biggest competitor within a month after that, I had Amazon.
- ▶ 26:20 Zack Kanter I sold to O'Reilly Auto Parts and Amazon, and when the volume got such that it wasn't reasonable to automate, to manually enter the transactions anymore, I reached out to the different retailers and said, can you send me your API specs so… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:56 Zack Kanter What we saw was like, okay, you look at a purchase order from Walmart, and then you look at one from Amazon, you kind of try and combine the properties that are, that are common, and you build what's called a canonical model. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:36 Zack Kanter And it's the equivalent of like, it's like AWS went down for 60 days and you just, everything comes to a stop and it was just a, just, just a disaster for everybody.
- ▶ 55:53 Zack Kanter Claim or an eligibility check to a text message or to a transportation status message or to an S three read or write or, or storage or something like that.
- ▶ 56:07 Zack Kanter I love the Jeff Bezos quote of, you know, there's at some point someone wanted to raise the price of something in Amazon.
- ▶ 57:07 Brett Berson AWS is a good story, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:44 Zack Kanter And so an example of that is like you're using an on-demand service from AWS for queuing, and you're using this menu, like, wow, we did a million messages for the last three months. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:03 Zack Kanter but, uh, he, um, maybe five years ago, I wrote a, uh, an essay called what is Amazon and a 25 page essay that kind of explained 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:11 Zack Kanter My understanding of Amazon having sold to Amazon as a, as a retail seller and as a marketplace seller and then used AWS and various different pieces advertised on Amazon.
The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
- ▶ 4:38 Gorkem Yurtseven I was at Amazon.
- ▶ 42:28 Gorkem Yurtseven You know, you could do that at a startup too, but you don't meet enough people there and in a big company like Amazon or Coinbase.
- ▶ 55:02 Gorkem Yurtseven At Amazon, we had engineering managers whose, their job was to maybe set goals, but also like have one-on-ones with everyone.
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 55:37 Abhinav Asthana I think the parts that I, I do love is, uh, you know, we, I mean, Amazon is a good example there to borrow from.
How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)
- ▶ 55:49 Cameron Adams So now we have companies like FedEx, New York Stock Exchange, Amazon using the enterprise product and getting a huge amount of value out of it.
Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
- ▶ 31:01 Qasar Younis And even under Amazon, we don't see tons of Zoox vehicles outside.
- ▶ 42:19 Qasar Younis Amazon isn't a great company because it's, it's really sharpened, you know, shipping books. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:37 Qasar Younis And then that ultimately, you know, it floats to AWS and, you know, all the other product lines they're in.
- ▶ 50:36 Qasar Younis Amazon, Tesla, sometimes it doesn't.
What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
- ▶ 39:23 Ankur Goyal And we also benchmark Snowflake and Redshift and all this other stuff.
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 1:14:21 Karri Saarinen Or are you the Amazon of this industry?
How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | (Co-founder of Maven)
How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (CEO at Reducto)
- ▶ 0:11 Adit Abraham We started getting replies like, hey, this is better than what I'm getting from Textract.
- ▶ 9:13 Adit Abraham We started getting replies like, hey, this is better than what I'm getting from Textract.
What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Stripe)
- ▶ 11:21 Brett Berson So like, put a pin in culture that are in between Stripe's culture and Amazon's culture, or, or pick other 8000 person companies that are selling generally to a developer audience, or generally to a business, uh, to sort of other…
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 40:16 Kevin Busque There are books sold on Amazon that dictate what you can and cannot do.
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 1:27 Brett Berson As he tells it, the story of DBT Labs begins a few years prior, the first time he used Amazon Redshift and realized that the world of data as he knew it was about to change dramatically.
- ▶ 4:00 Tristan Handy I got to use a product called Amazon Redshift for the first time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:51 Tristan Handy I don't think that you can have a company value of we are humble and go found Amazon.
- ▶ 11:28 Brett Berson You saw sort of the sea change that was happening with Redshift and new databases.
- ▶ 37:06 Tristan Handy And now AWS has kind of changed to become more open source friendly in the five years since then. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:21 Tristan Handy And yes, Redshift and stuff like did exist prior to, and BigQuery did exist prior to twenty-twenty, but none of the platforms were like really ready to scale.
Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO That's Led Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta
- ▶ 51:36 Anneka Gupta And I need people on my team that are deep Oracle database experts all the way to people that understand how like Amazon S three works and what are simply can interact with like the AWS product team and figure out what are places we…
- ▶ 51:36 Anneka Gupta And I need people on my team that are deep Oracle database experts all the way to people that understand how like Amazon S three works and what are simply can interact with like the AWS product team and figure out what are places we…
How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- ▶ 36:13 Matt Lerner And they put in 15 links, Amazon driver, you know, warehouse operative, this and that.
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
- ▶ 14:09 Bob Moore The data warehouses were Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Azure SQL data warehouse. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:58 Bob Moore And then what happens by 2014 or 20 15, Amazon Redshift becomes the fastest growing product in AWS history. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:58 Bob Moore And then what happens by 2014 or 20 15, Amazon Redshift becomes the fastest growing product in AWS history.
- ▶ 36:55 Bob Moore Because if you are using Looker sitting on top of Redshift at the time and you were like, oh crap, I really need to get my MailChimp data in here. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:06 Bob Moore The other example, which occurred to me years later was when we announced our series B round, Amazon had just launched Redshift as a data warehouse product. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:06 Bob Moore The other example, which occurred to me years later was when we announced our series B round, Amazon had just launched Redshift as a data warehouse product. 3 times in the scene
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 22:21 Sam Schillace Like that was, I think a very challenging, I think, you know, Amazon kind of did the same thing to Walmart, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:37 Sam Schillace To go back to like the Walmart and Amazon example for a second, Amazon sort of forced that question on Walmart. 4 times in the scene
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)
- ▶ 7:51 Eilon Reshef And then it kind of led us towards like, hey, let's find those companies that, you know, are kind of more lend themselves to be early adopters versus the ADPs of the world or, you know, the, the Amazons of the world or the Googles of the…
- ▶ 10:24 unnamed speaker Amazon account, the cloud account, using my Gmail account.
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- ▶ 2:18 Brett Berson One of the interesting things is that going all the way back to the start of AWS, Azure, et cetera,
- ▶ 7:55 Brett Berson But this is you, you left AWS and you said, I want to go start a company.
- ▶ 8:23 Dennis Pilarinos At Amazon, it was super easy.
- ▶ 35:06 Dennis Pilarinos You know, going back to those Amazon leadership principles, being customer obsessed matters a lot.
- ▶ 40:07 Dennis Pilarinos A lot of those Amazon leadership principles echo slight variants of them within these companies as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:56 Dennis Pilarinos It'd be interesting if you went back and talked to the employees who were early at Microsoft and early at Amazon, how much historical retrofitting has been done to go and do, and I, I see a couple, there's actually a couple interesting…
- ▶ 54:57 Dennis Pilarinos Maybe another Amazon thing. 2 times in the scene
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 15:06 Amjad Masad They got acquired by AWS, and now it's still part of the AWS offering, although I think it's sort of abandoned and semi-dead at this point. 2 times in the scene
The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
- ▶ 1:00:22 unnamed speaker I think it is related to an infrastructure company or infrastructure monitoring company like Datadog, but it does feel like more of a SAS tool style company is there versus AWS or some other kind of more classic infrastructure company. 2 times in the scene
Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
- ▶ 43:18 Steve Blank Amazon and Bezos, another example, you know, until the founder gets bored and tired and distracted. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:35 Steve Blank I mean, and look at all the pivots and gee, look at AWS and all the other things that, that they did.
A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
- ▶ 1:04:51 Will Larson There's this, like, um, this idea of like three Amazon answers and, and I never worked at Amazon, so I don't know how real this is, but it's, uh, three Amazon answers are like a piece of data. 2 times in the scene
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 13:18 Guillermo Rauch One fun fact is when I first came to the Valley, I became one of the earliest users of AWS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 Guillermo Rauch I'm talking about the e-commerce players of the world that are transforming from brick and mortar, and they're trying to get a solid dot com that's really good, that's competing with amazon.com.
- ▶ 19:47 Guillermo Rauch Uh, and one of the key insights there is that I kind of reverse engineered how Google was built, Google searches specifically, how Facebook was built, how amazon.com was built. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:11 Guillermo Rauch And I mentioned, I remember reverse engineering Amazon and Google and Facebook.
How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
- ▶ 53:49 Colin Zima And this was right at the rise of Redshift BigQuery Snowflake.
How young outsiders changed the shipping industry | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)
- ▶ 12:47 Laura Behrens Wu Um, however, they're competing with like retail giants such as Amazon who have set consumer expectations to be like,
A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
- ▶ 16:21 unnamed speaker We would have people with internal tooling review all the output before we shipped it to our customers to view in the interface, and we originally hired Amazon Mechanical Turks, and we said, hey, we'll save money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:55 Brett Berson So in some ways they're incumbent, but they're not, you know, Salesforce or AWS or something like that.
How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
- ▶ 7:14 Kellan Elliott-McCrea The lots of photos that we stored at that time fit in a single S three bucket today.
- ▶ 31:11 Kellan Elliott-McCrea 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…
Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings | Noah Desai Weiss
- ▶ 48:00 Noah Desai Weiss Amazon has this kind of delineation between one-way door and two-way door decisions.