Amazon Web Services
also referred to as: aws
part of Amazon
4 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 2, 2023 by Bill Carr · said 38 times in 27 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Madhavan Ramanujam (4), Lenny Rachitsky (4), Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (2), Jason Shah (2), Hila Qu (2), Bret Taylor (2), Bill Carr (2), Alex Komoroske (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
- He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps
- Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 12 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
- Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)
- The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
- The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
- An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- The science of product, big bets, and how AI is impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström
- Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian)
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)
- Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
- What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
Everything said about Amazon Web Services, oldest first
Nov 2, 2023 positive
Carr: Amazon developed nearly all core products and processes between 2003-2007
“This period of both product and process innovation actually occurred in this one narrow window of 2003 to 2007. During that window of time, all the products I just mentioned and all of the processes except for one Were all developed in this one four year perio…”
Nov 2, 2023 positive
Carr: Amazon shielded early AWS and digital media teams with direct CEO oversight
“One was when we went to go build, you know, digital media and AWS, we put like two of our smartest, you know, leaders in the company on those things, Steve Kessel and Andy Jassy. And number two, they were meeting with Jeff regularly. Jeff was deeply engaged wi…”
May 5, 2024
Helmer: Iconic companies commonly depend on second or third acts
“Another thing that's quite surprising about iconic businesses is they often have a second act or third act or fourth act. I mean, think of AWS or Intel going into CPUs or Apple going into iPhones, all, all not the original business, right? And that's actually …”
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Komoroske: AWS's decentralized swarm makes its product suite antifragile
“AWS has picked the exact opposite thing. AWS is like, yeah, there's like 15 different ways of doing everything. They clearly don't, they don't talk to each other, but it allows the overall swarm of the AWS product suite to be very powerful and anti-fragile or …”