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Rauch: Vercel rerouted Dubai region after two AWS availability zones were droned
“Our region in Dubai got taken offline because of war. You know, two of our availability zones hosted by AWS were droned. So we had to reroute an entire region”
Lessin: Incumbents like GitHub will crush competitors in AI development
“The incumbents are going to crush it. Like GitHub is going to crush it because if you think about like the real places where there's leverage and blockers, right? It really is going to be like, who's actually deploying my production code because they actually …”
Sam Lessin: Startups cannot sustain long-term value on single growth hacks
“And like you ride that hack for a while, but it's not going to last. And so at some point you have to say like, okay, my hack that I used to initially acquire customers or grow the, you know, the way AWS is valuable is not any one service. It's basically low l…”
Rauch: Vercel aims to become the AWS of agentic infrastructure
“So that's the focus of the company right now build being the AWS of agentic infrastructure.”
Morin: Major cloud platforms like AWS and GCP are impossible to start with
“All of the core large scale cloud platforms, they have so many tools and serve so many audiences that it's impossible just to get started.”
Levie: Google is the most threatened Big Tech company by AI
“Google is, is in, you know, singularly the trickiest spot, I think of the big tech players. Cause you know, this is not particularly disruptive to Meta. It's basically all upside. It's all kind of like an adjacent side business to AWS and Amazon. It's all net …”
Aoun: Vertically integrated startups cannot easily cut burn through layoffs
“If you're in a vertically integrated business like us, like employees are a cost. Don't get me wrong, but they're not 80% of your cost, right? They're 30 or 40% at best. And so, you know, we have everything from leases to AWS contracts to you name it, and we c…”
Rauch: AWS and Azure require weeks and experts for basic setup
“If you use the, like, foundational cloud infrastructure today, like AWS or Azure, it's really, really difficult to turn your idea into reality. It'll take you on team of experts, and it'll take you weeks just to set up the foundations.”
Jessica Lessin: Users dislike AWS's Nova AI models but prefer agent tools
“I don't think people love Nova, but people like the new agent stuff”
Lessin: Markets ignore one-time outages, caring only about systemic risks
“The whole thing about one-time hits, they don't really matter. Like anyone, it's like, I think this is the same thing with like, these outages, a lot of things is like, systemic things people care about. One-time hits, it doesn't, whether you're spending a hun…”