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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
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.