Amazon, every mention

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▶ 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.

▶ 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

▶ 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.

▶ 53:49 Colin Zima And this was right at the rise of Redshift BigQuery Snowflake.

▶ 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,

▶ 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.

▶ 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…

▶ 48:00 Noah Desai Weiss Amazon has this kind of delineation between one-way door and two-way door decisions.

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