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Kreps: Amazon built Kinesis to imitate Kafka before monetizing the open-source
“Amazon had a system that was actually built in, I believe imitation of Kafka called Kinesis. So it was incompatible, but kind of looked roughly like it. And that was popular. And we were like, oh man, that's going to take the opportunity. And if it doesn't, Th…”
Kanter: Amazon Transcends Bezos While SpaceX Heavily Relies on Elon Musk
“If Bezos were no longer CEO of Amazon, you know, the businesses, I think the business would suffer, but I don't think that the business, like, if Elon were no longer the CEO of SpaceX, I think that would be a huge problem. Amazon is in really tough spaces, tou…”
Younis: Zoox misunderstood autonomous vehicle economics and chose the wrong strategy
“Zoox raised a billion dollars, sort of sold for a billion dollars. That wasn't the right way. And even under Amazon, we don't see tons of Zoox vehicles outside. So there was a misunderstanding of the cost structure of how we're going to get this technology out…”
Elliott-McCrea: The tech industry faces a wave of disappointing internal platforms
“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 dependencies on, on these int…”
Amazon successfully absorbed eBay's marketplace model better than eBay copied Amazon
“My friends and colleagues from eBay, I don't want to upset them too much, but it does look like Amazon got the better end of that. They absorbed that innovation in a better way or more profitable way.”
Payne: Amazon launched its entire video business in six months in 1998
“This is in, you know, March or April of 2000, sorry, in 1998, right? And Jeff wants us to launch in October, right? And so, roll forward. October of 1998, we launch Amazon. I'm in every mahogany boardroom for every movie studio. So I went from, like, can't get…”
eBay, Yahoo, and Amazon dominated Silicon Valley hiring from 2001 to 2005
“EBay, Yahoo, Amazon were some of the few companies that survived that forest fire. And so what it meant was from 2001 to 2005, they kind of had their pick of talent.”