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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 1:27 Tristan Handy I think over the past seven years, really, it was like the introduction of Amazon redshift with
- ▶ 10:01 Tristan Handy Um, and, uh, up until the release of Amazon Redshift in, uh, I was, I didn't work at a large company that had a Teradata license or a Netesa box in my, you know, the server cabinet somewhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:08 Tristan Handy Um, that's my, you know, I know that that's a technology centric answer to that question, but like, it's the same way that like EC two or S three has changed the way that we think about not just like building applications, but
- ▶ 11:08 Tristan Handy Um, that's my, you know, I know that that's a technology centric answer to that question, but like, it's the same way that like EC two or S three has changed the way that we think about not just like building applications, but
Fireside Chat: Ashley Kramer (CMO & CPO, Sisense) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:57 Ashley Kramer And so I got a great opportunity to build out Kindle, um, or in the early Kindle days at Amazon and more relevant to my experience. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:57 Ashley Kramer And so I got a great opportunity to build out Kindle, um, or in the early Kindle days at Amazon and more relevant to my experience. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14 Ashley Kramer And I learned the importance of cloud because AWS was starting to grow up.
- ▶ 9:43 Ashley Kramer So now fast forward a few years, um, you start to see redshift, big query, snowflake, and people are investing heavily in those. 4 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:18 Amit Bendov Um, and Google and Amazon will compete with you and, you know, standard stuff.
- ▶ 15:39 Amit Bendov It builds into like native API, but anything from all the web conferencing, um, Zoom, uh, WebEx, uh, Google Meet, Amazon, Chime, whatever you're using, uh, Microsoft Teams, obviously, uh, most of the telephony systems, uh, cell phones,
Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 17:14 David Cancel I'm just using random examples or Amazon.
- ▶ 42:50 David Cancel We do those every day, Amazon, et cetera.
Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 4:54 George Fraser Yeah, the most popular data warehouses today would be, uh, Snowflake, who everyone's talking about right now because they're about to IPO, um, Redshift, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:04 George Fraser Uh, which is a data warehouse that you can buy from Amazon Web Services. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:31 George Fraser Uh, so things like Dropbox or S three and, uh, we support events.
- ▶ 26:02 George Fraser So you, you choose, uh, some database to power whatever you're building, and that might be Snowflake, it might be BigQuery, it might be Redshift,
- ▶ 36:08 George Fraser Uh, and, uh, and we didn't spend a ton of money on AWS, and we only had one other person who joined the company in that, in that first phase.
- ▶ 39:55 George Fraser I, I, I always tease our, uh, our data warehouse partners that if they were to look at our AWS account, they would be like, that's for one customer, right? 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Alex Rinke (Founder & CEO, Celonis) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 7:20 Matt Turck The reason why I ask you that is a question that comes up so many often in startup conversations like, oh, if only I could sign, you know, Microsoft or Amazon as a partner, I could accelerate, and then there's always like some, you know,…
- ▶ 20:23 Alex Rinke So you buy something on Amazon. 3 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 2:32 Nate Stewart So fend off Amazon and some of our other competitors were also attacking this, uh, this cloud native SQL market.
- ▶ 7:26 Nate Stewart It really makes it possible to build the types of applications and the types of architectures that you'd see coming out of an Amazon or a Microsoft or a Google, but it makes that technology available to every developers.
- ▶ 13:48 Matt Turck How do you position, uh, against other databases or in particular Amazon or, or, you know, Cassandra or like, you know, that, that, those, um, that category of, of, uh, databases.
- ▶ 14:03 Nate Stewart So for Amazon Aurora, you know, that's a, a great product depending on what you're trying to do. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:29 Nate Stewart We're going to start putting more stuff in the enterprise, um, license because we're worried about Amazon, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:47 Nate Stewart We're still winning heads up versus Amazon Aurora in single data centers.
- ▶ 38:55 Nate Stewart So people see, okay, this is what the future will look like if we're even moderately successful with, uh, you know, an Amazon style database versus this is what it would look like with cockroach.
Fireside Chat: Jerome Pesenti (Head of AI, Facebook) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 25:39 Matt Turck Partnering with AWS, right, on the, on the, on the PyTorch release. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:43 Jerome Pesenti Oh, and that's another aspect, which is we're really trying to create a community, including actually partnering with, uh, you know, actually we're partnering with Google, we're partnering with Amazon, we're partnering with Microsoft, uh,…
- ▶ 28:43 Jerome Pesenti So when you interact with something like Alexa or Google Home today, right, this system basically do intent recognition and then they have a very scripted dialogue after this, right?
Fireside Chat Part II: Ben Horowitz (a16z) on Culture with Matt Turck (FirstMark) at Data Driven NYC
- ▶ 13:06 Ben Horowitz So do you remember the Amazon article in the New York Times where they basically said Amazon's like the worst place to work in the world. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:13 Matt Turck Different cultures, what worked for Amazon didn't work for Apple, I think. 6 times in the scene
How to Resurrect Innovation in the Enterprise // Amr Awadallah, Google (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 17:49 Matt Turck Obviously, the, I mean, the very clear objective is to take over, uh, AWS and Azure.
- ▶ 18:36 Amr Awadallah Google is always upper right corner, way ahead of Amazon, way ahead of 3 times in the scene
Fireside Chat with Olivier Pomel (Founder & CEO of Datadog) and Matt Turck (Partner at FirstMark)
- ▶ 3:44 Olivier Pomel Um, a lot of the value prop for the cloud, you know, for Amazon Web Services and now Google and Azure, uh, is that instead of having a development team that builds an application and then, you know, you need to spend six months filing…
- ▶ 16:38 Olivier Pomel So we tell them, hey, you have, you're having an issue right now on Amazon, the OSS one, and it's not just you.
NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 12:23 Clement Delangue A popular one in terms of, like, uh, public, uh, view, view in it, conversational, so obviously Siri, Alexa, uh, Square, for example, uses, uh, Transformers to, uh, power their customer support, uh, chatbots.
- ▶ 22:04 Clement Delangue Uh, so we believe that actually if, uh, all the other companies than Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, uh, are actually all contributing to the same open source, uh, technology, they can actually end up with something way better, uh, than…
Production AI: Lessons Learned the Hard Way // Adam Wenchel, Arthur.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 15:59 Adam Wenchel They're using DataRobot, and H-to-O, and open source, and cloud providers like AWS SageMaker, and things like that.