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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon Web Services comes up
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- ▶ 26:58 Brian Halligan And even technology, AWS just made it easier to start a software company.
The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- ▶ 35:21 Edwin Chen And then suddenly AWS goes down and Slack goes down.
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
- ▶ 53:29 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Um, you know, good thing to do, and, but they, they stop there, and particularly if you're selling into a slightly larger company, doing things like, um, you know, AWS calls it well-architected guides, um, or blueprints.
- ▶ 1:04:50 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Super different from a crypto company where, you know, you might be running soup to nuts on AWS.
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 56:34 Brendan Foody and then my AWS company, uh, were the two that, that I sort of scaled up.
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 39:02 Bret Taylor That is now trivial with Amazon Web Services, and, and that technical mode is, is comically narrow, but the product mode is, is quite, quite large.
- ▶ 57:03 Bret Taylor You know, nowadays, like, you know, no one asks about that, because you can just spin up a database in AWS or Azure, and it's like, no problem.
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- ▶ 1:09:10 Maor Shlomo it's like a very like built on top of AWS.
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 54:03 Mayur Kamat It's, it's a massive market, but it's still, like, all the company that need online hosting.
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- ▶ 30:33 Guillermo Rauch One of the bets that I made early on with Vercel that really paid off is we, Vercel, maybe as a metaphor, is like AWS in easy mode for a lot of people.
Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- ▶ 44:39 Alex Komoroske AWS has picked the exact opposite thing. 2 times in the scene
Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- ▶ 26:48 Tamar Yehoshua And this was before AWS launched, so it was before Amazon was known in the valley.
How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps
- ▶ 1:10:19 Lenny Rachitsky Like AWS credits? 2 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- ▶ 22:03 Timothy Davis Uh, and it was between us, AWS and Microsoft and met with the sales team and said, you know, what do we need to do to win this?
Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- ▶ 1:58:27 Jeff Weinstein Imagine life without Google Docs, uh, and where you'd have to hire an IT person to run your IT backend, uh, on, on employee three, you'd have an IT person or imagine the world without AWS for EC two or S three or any of these cloud…
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 1:36:47 Mike Maples, Jr. The iPhone, Steve Jobs, uh, AWS.
The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
- ▶ 0:49 Lenny Rachitsky Inbal is Chief Product Officer at GitHub, formerly a General Manager at AWS and at Microsoft, and also Senior Software Developer on Amazon Robotics.
Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
- ▶ 6:29 Bill Carr The company rolled out all kinds of innovative products, the Kindle, AWS, Alexa, Echo, um,
- ▶ 1:13:09 Bill Carr And one of the ways we solved that two ways, 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.
An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- ▶ 54:49 Claire Butler Downtime is, is always a big deal, and I remember there was a specific instance, I think it was last year, maybe two years ago, where there was, like, this issue with these servers and, like, an AWS cluster went down, and we couldn't, we…
The science of product, big bets, and how AI is impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 37:49 Gustav Söderström And interestingly, even though theoretically then they're the worst position to have a structured platform, I think because they forced it so hard, they were the ones who did Amazon Web Services because they had such hard defined APIs…
Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- ▶ 6:51 David Singleton But it turned out because there were services like AWS around by then that that was actually quite easy.
How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian)
- ▶ 11:48 Carilu Dietrich Like I would love to work for Tesla or AWS or gosh, right.
Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)
- ▶ 0:55 Lenny Rachitsky Before that, she was Head of Product Management at Amazon Web Services for their database and analytics services, and before that, she was at Cisco.
- ▶ 8:49 Shweta Shrivastava Um, and they have been pretty transformational with AWS and, and on the e-commerce side, but a fully autonomous driving system, you know, you, it's, it's also a very, very hard problem, right?
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
- ▶ 1:16:45 Josh Miller Every big public company mentions Microsoft Azure, you know, Amazon web service.
Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
- ▶ 55:39 Chris Hutchins And you could host everything you're on your own on AWS or something, but they make it really easy for not that much money.
The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)
- ▶ 54:52 Madhavan Ramanujam And even in a company like Amazon and AWS has a very different strategy compared to their e-commerce marketplace, right?
- ▶ 1:05:49 Madhavan Ramanujam So like making it easier to buy like an AWS kind of thing, you know, you onboard people and then you grow over the product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:26 Madhavan Ramanujam Like the way you actually, if you frame your price, if you can actually showcase some kind of bargain, like AWS does this really well.
What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
- ▶ 33:34 Ian McAllister My wife, Sarah is a, is a product manager in AWS.
Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- ▶ 7:07 Jason Shah They were growing their AWS offering SaaS products.
- ▶ 19:54 Jason Shah And I was wondering how does the same company kind of within retail, win with AWS, they'll create studios.