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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
Matthew Zeiler, Clarifai // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 13:41 Matthew Zeiler So a little bit about our API, um, it's up on Amazon, so if you're there, it'll be really quick, um, otherwise it's also really quick, and basically the images take under a hundred milliseconds.
Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 13:49 Mike Abbott And it's been interesting to see how many companies are looking at things like Redshift and more self-service.
John Rauser, Pinterest // Big Data at Pinterest // Data Driven NYC (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:42 John Rauser Uh, I am currently a data scientist at Pinterest, uh, but before I joined Pinterest, I worked at Amazon for eight years, and for the last two of those eight years, I worked in AWS infrastructure.
- ▶ 0:42 John Rauser Uh, I am currently a data scientist at Pinterest, uh, but before I joined Pinterest, I worked at Amazon for eight years, and for the last two of those eight years, I worked in AWS infrastructure. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:45 John Rauser Um, at Amazon, when I was there, I mean, I, I encouraged the, the sourcers to, um, look in fields with a heavy analytical background, so fields like econometrics or physics. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:33 John Rauser Um, at, uh, Pinterest we use Redshift. 3 times in the scene
Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 5:38 Vance Loiselle We run about a 2000 node cluster right now in AWS.
- ▶ 8:12 Vance Loiselle First, and you hear a lot about cloud, and it was great, the previous presentation about Mesosphere, about AWS. 3 times in the scene
Tobi Knaup, Mesosphere // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 10:51 Tobi Knaup And so, uh, infrastructure 2.5 was, um, we used, uh, AWS Elastic MapReduce, so we no longer had to, um, you know, manage the Hadoop cluster ourselves.
- ▶ 10:51 Tobi Knaup And so, uh, infrastructure 2.5 was, um, we used, uh, AWS Elastic MapReduce, so we no longer had to, um, you know, manage the Hadoop cluster ourselves. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Tobi Knaup Uh, AWS came out with, uh, Redshift, um, which is, the analysts really like, makes it really easy to query your data.
- ▶ 19:20 Aaron Franco Am I writing to bare metal, or am I, like, is it automating it to S three?
Noah Breslow & Abhra Mitra, onDeck // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 3:06 Noah Breslow You look at what Amazon has done in the retail space,
Ashish Thusoo, Qubole // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 8:29 Ashish Thusoo I think AWS has, like, uh, the Amazon Cloud has, like, twenty-odd machines, maybe even more.
- ▶ 19:15 Ashish Thusoo So just recently, for example, last, uh, whatever it was, last week or two weeks back, the costs, the storage costs in the cloud, for example, S-three and so on and so forth, were cut to one third, like a 70% drop. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 Ashish Thusoo So Amazon was the dominant player, and now, ah, you know, Azure, Google, and all these things are cropping up.
Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:31 Jason Tan Um, we are taking this technology that Google has been able to build, you know, sort of the Amazon quality machine learning technology, and making it really simple to integrate.
- ▶ 6:21 Jason Tan Um, and then, you know, uh, Amazon, Amazon reviews.
- ▶ 17:12 Jason Tan Now, Google and Amazon do this.
Sean Gourley, Quid // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 14:43 Sean Gourley This happens a lot in Mechanical Turk.
Amit Bendov, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 25:34 unnamed speaker So if we assume this is great, how quickly do we load this onto AWS or other cloud platforms to, uh, start running? 2 times in the scene
Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 3:14 Michael Schmidt Um, it runs locally on your own machine, or it can go out into the cloud, into Amazon's cloud at, at a click of a button.
- ▶ 17:10 Michael Schmidt Um, and then you go to start the search, and here's where it can either run locally on your laptop, or if you've enabled the cloud and you have an Amazon EC-II account, you can automatically distribute it across, you know, hundreds of…
- ▶ 23:07 Michael Schmidt Plugs right into Amazon if you ever need it.
Corey Pearson, Custora // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 13:02 Corey Pearson But a retailer, you know, your big retail brand, Amazon or something, and, and, and you had this customer who was ordering a lot and they haven't in a couple months, maybe they're on vacation,
Vijay Subramanian, Rent the Runway // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014
- ▶ 21:23 unnamed speaker I mean, unless you guys have an Amazon-sized distribution network, it seems like it's
Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 7:02 Ian White Um, we used AWS from about 2010 to 2012 as our main, ah, as our main infrastructural, ah, data store. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:10 unnamed speaker Um, you mentioned the transition you did from the pizza box in Iraq to AWS and then to your own colo.
- ▶ 16:53 Ian White So we really did a ROI like cost benefit analysis of what we were paying on Amazon on a monthly basis. 4 times in the scene
Itai Gurari, Judicata // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 19:56 Itai Gurari Yeah, so we have, um, a couple levels of, of skill in-house on our legal team, and then we've, ah, ah, we do some experimentation with, ah, mechanical torque in terms of low-skilled labor, and we're able to develop tasks with, ah, a high…
Tim Hwang, FiscalNote // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Scott Sorensen, CTO of Ancestry.com // Data Driven 19 // October 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 5:30 Scott Sorensen Uh, Amazon is able to say, you like this book, you'll probably like this music.