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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Azure comes up
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 3:17 Matt Turck Not Windows, but if you think of the oligopoly of AWS, Azure, and GCP, those are largely undifferentiated businesses that in, uh, because of the market size seem to be doing quite well. 2 times in the scene
AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
- ▶ 33:40 George Sivulka Um, it can make a, you know, a license request and license grant will say, okay, you have to use Azure, you have to use X, Y, or Z models.
Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
- ▶ 23:40 Sridhar Ramaswamy Snowflake essentially runs in what we call deployments, which you can think as a point of presence in every major data center that AWS and Azure and GCP have.
- ▶ 1:19:14 Sridhar Ramaswamy With confidence, look at our customer and tell them that their data is not leaving the Snowflake deployment, and it's similarly with Microsoft and Azure and OpenAI.
From Selfie to Studio: Captions CEO on AI Video for 10M Creators
- ▶ 48:00 Matt Turck You mentioned that's important, like OpenAI running on Azure, like are you in a Azure shop? 2 times in the scene
Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
- ▶ 21:38 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) Obviously Azure exists. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:48 Matt Turck So not an Azure fan, not a Redshift fan.
Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
- ▶ 56:14 Matt Turck So that could be the world of, uh, chat GPD on Azure.
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 4:05 Erik Bernhardsson Like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp
- ▶ 16:43 Eric Glyman Um, uh, we just open AI and Azure, uh, as well for some of our more AI, uh, oriented.
Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
- ▶ 7:39 Matt Turck Oh, let's just, uh, bring in OpenAI, you know, on top of Azure or whatever to do this use cases versus, um, you know, let's play with open source, our own models, and, uh, how's the thinking evolving?
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
- ▶ 11:30 Aaron Katz And, uh, yeah, we then had to decide what cloud provider we were going to start with and we chose AWS and we then have subsequently deployed on GCP and we'll be deploying on Azure and launching that service in public bait in two weeks on
- ▶ 18:49 Aaron Katz So I think I mentioned Azure. 3 times in the scene
Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer
- ▶ 10:37 Matt Turck You know, this emerging, um, uh, business models around that, uh, whether that's, uh, selling through Azure, uh, or, you know, services on, uh, for, for, for self-hosted on-prem kind of versions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:33 Matt Turck You could very much argue that, um, the storage layer of an AWS versus a GCP versus an Azure, uh, is entirely not differentiated.
Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
- ▶ 17:02 Tristan Handy AWS and, and, uh, and Azure and Google kind of sit at the top of this food chain and then people like me and George just get to figure out what everybody else above us is doing.
Perplexity AI CEO on Dethroning Google & Redefining Search
- ▶ 49:03 Aravind Srinivas I think for the cloud, you can use AWS or Azure. 3 times in the scene
Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 0:41 Dimitri Sirota And that requires a way to look across, especially in the cloud, you know, hundreds of possible varieties of data sets from, you know, um, um, document DBs to, I saw your investor in Cockroach to everything that's possible in, uh, AWS,…
- ▶ 7:41 Dimitri Sirota So one thing to understand is while we started cloud native and AWS, we very quickly kind of realized that we needed to make the cloud runnable in GCP and Azure and in a private cloud, but also even in a, in a, uh, legacy data center.
Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
- ▶ 16:31 Benn Stancil But you're not gonna buy one GCP service over here, and one AWS service over here, and Azure over here.
Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh
- ▶ 10:50 Pete DeJoy We have one in AWS, one in GCP, one in Azure.
Fireside Chat: Aaron Katz (Co-Founder & CEO, ClickHouse) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 16:04 Aaron Katz A multi-tenant managed service in the cloud, which will inevitably be deployed on a variety of different cloud platforms, whether it's AWS, GCP, Azure, whether we go to China, like I've done in the past and partner with companies like…
Fireside Chat: Ali Ghodsi (Founder & CEO, Databricks) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 21:08 Ali Ghodsi Um, you know, I'll start by saying, you know, it's kind of like people make it about zero sum, but if you answer it like this, do you think Google Cloud will eliminate Amazon Cloud and Microsoft Cloud, or do you think, you know, Amazon…
Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 24:21 Dev Ittycheria Now, Amazon and Azure in particular have competitive offerings, but we feel we're very, 3 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. 2 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…
Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 11:28 Mike Volpi As a business is you partner with Google and Azure who, because they're pretty far behind Amazon, they're more than happy to have the original item and to pay you something for the privilege of running your version. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:01 unnamed speaker Um, you know, just recently the government gave Azure a ten billion dollars contract over Amazon. 4 times in the scene
Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 5:35 Anant Bhardwaj Or it could be this one, which is Microsoft Azure, provides a bunch of services.
Fireside Chat with Bob Muglia, CEO at Snowflake (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 2:36 Matt Turck Um, somewhere, but, uh, last quarter, uh, AWS reported a, uh, ten billion run rate, uh, growing at 45%, and then Microsoft Azure, uh, reported a seven million dollar run rate accelerating at 98%.
Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 4:34 Diego Oppenheimer In some cases, it might be with a little bit more beefy infrastructure, uh, doing on GPUs and on AWS or in Azure.
- ▶ 23:15 Diego Oppenheimer So we have good relationships with all the cloud providers, and some of them we actually do co-selling experiences with them where, you know, we're, you know, we're informing their sales forces to say, hey, this is a product that exists on…
Big Data as a Service // Prat Moghe, Cazena (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 3:02 Prat Moghe I mean, AWS was a clear leader a few years back, but now Azure's come along, and then Google's there.
- ▶ 6:54 Prat Moghe Um, what we've done is we've actually looked at how long it takes for these companies to actually move in the cloud and build around AWS, build around Azure, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 Prat Moghe So then why do you care if this is AWS and Redshift and Azure in the East region and all that?
- ▶ 13:42 Prat Moghe Is at the bottom most layer you got cloud, which is AWS or Azure.
Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 10:05 Jason Grout Notebooks that you can download and run in a cloud service like Microsoft Azure, or click on this link and you use Jeremy Freeman's binder.
Making Big Data Accessible Using the Cloud // Ashish Thusoo, Qubole [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 18:50 Ashish Thusoo You know, Azure is, is there. 2 times in the scene
The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)
- ▶ 18:32 Prakash Nanduri AWS, Azure, and potentially Google.
A Fireside Chat With MongoDB CTO Eliot Horowitz (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 24:24 Eliot Horowitz On the other hand, everyone needs someone to run the database, to back up the database, to manage the database, you know, just like they do with, you know, Amazon or the Google or Microsoft Clouds, you know, people need people to help them.
- ▶ 26:34 Eliot Horowitz You know, I think Amazon is, uh, you know, moving impressively fast in the cloud space, and I think they're sort of really changing the game there, but, and I think that, you know, what we see is a lot of, ah, a huge amount of Azure…
A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 26:36 Peter Fenton I, you know, it's, it's, now, Azure is great, you know, I, I think they, they had the benefit of starting later, so Azure has, uh, gets back to, to where I think there are opportunities. 2 times in the scene
Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 3:37 Bob Muglia Um, if you think about infrastructure as a service, and of which Amazon's core, AWS is an example, Azure is another example, infrastructure as a service really takes away the data center and the, the hardware, but it leaves the task of…
Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 1:26 Mike Abbott And, ah, after getting that out, became the first GM of what's now Azure.
Ashish Thusoo, Qubole // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 19:47 Ashish Thusoo So Amazon was the dominant player, and now, ah, you know, Azure, Google, and all these things are cropping up.