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How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi) Nov 6, 2025 · 21 mentions

• ▶ 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.
• ▶ 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.