Amazon, every mention
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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.