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The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
- ▶ 8:47 Nikhil Gupta And I lost a big deal to an unknown company called AWS.
Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital
- ▶ 14:38 Krishna Mehra Of course, the floodgates opened late 2000 with the emergence of cloud and AWS and things like that.
The #1 Mistake Killing B2B Startups | Arun Penmetsa, Storm Ventures
- ▶ 45:51 Arun Penmetsa You know, the, the big companies of today didn't start out until five, six, seven years after AWS came out, right?
How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- ▶ 48:26 Srividya Srinivasan Which is basically, as he explained, renting data centers in the cloud from public cloud companies like AWS and Google and doing it only in the cloud.
94% CAGR: What the Inference Boom means for your AI costs | Vamshi Ambati
- ▶ 16:42 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So right now, globally, let's say, AWS revenue, mostly from compute layer, is one forty billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
- ▶ 6:06 Poojan Kumar You know, it was, you know, still, you know, relatively early days, you can say of public cloud, you know, AWS had done well, and then Azure was trying to do, and GCP was, you know, significantly behind, but again, you know, early…
- ▶ 17:08 Poojan Kumar I think in 2014, 20 15 is the first time even AWS came and talked about their, you know, how they're doing with their public cloud, as far as I remember.
- ▶ 19:37 Poojan Kumar And, you know, there's obviously folks like AWS that pioneered that and,
- ▶ 22:03 Poojan Kumar A cloud code is exactly how, you know, you can say, you know, uh, it was a cloud architect for AWS, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:42 Poojan Kumar Yeah, means, ah, I think, ah, you know, obviously initially it was all AWS, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:17 Poojan Kumar No matter what, you really have to go and figure out which public cloud, you know, is the right one for you and which application is the one you want to put like, okay, maybe in some cases of analytics thing, you want to maybe go GCP,…
How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- ▶ 56:50 Aneesh Reddy So, uh, they had built a DevOps platform for us to do multiple things, uh, you know, improve our uptimes, reduce our, uh, AWS costs, like auto scaling, all of that.
Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
- ▶ 1:06:00 Manish Jindal Um, other thing we are doing is we also have built very strong partnerships, you know, with the AWS, with GCP, with the NVIDIA, with IBM, where, uh, they also introduce us to a lot of their customers because, you know, if I am, uh, let's…
Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
- ▶ 8:06 Rohit Agarwal Uh, we had an attack one day where we ended up spending our month's AWS bill in just one day on OpenAI because we had a bot attack happen on us.
- ▶ 16:32 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So today the overall, I think cloud revenue globally is like AWS is north of a hundred billion.
- ▶ 42:14 Rohit Agarwal AWS could always copy your product, or if you're in the Salesforce app store, Salesforce could all could always roll in your product.
- ▶ 53:21 Rohit Agarwal What, what happens if AWS builds a gateway, Anthropic or Openia builds a gateway?
Where SMALL models will Win | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest ai
- ▶ 33:08 Sudarshan Kamath Uh, I remember I was in the middle of AWS reinvent, uh, AWS is an active reseller of smallest by the way. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:46 Sudarshan Kamath So, you know, like, uh, AWS, for example, all these clouds can be great partners.
How Buyers Discover Startups, From a 10-Year Founder Journey to an EXIT | Ankur & Vishwa, Zenduty
- ▶ 6:37 unnamed speaker Um, even in your case, I think for you, with you, it was pretty natural because you came from, you had your own startup, you came from AWS, so you were already in that space. 4 times in the scene
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3 Steps on How Large Companies Decide to Buy From a Startup or Not | CIO Karthik Chakkarapani
- ▶ 36:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today, do you want to be on AWS, Azure or GCP? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:36 Karthik Chakkarapani Ah, we already have Claude that comes as part of our AWS service.
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 41:53 Somesh Dash There were some early companies that are trying to build their own versions of what the public cloud was, but ultimately you look at market share, you see that it's AWS, it's Azure, it's GCP, right?
The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- ▶ 17:26 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because currently, if I, if I have the numbers correct, AWS is at hundred plus billion in run rate and Azure and GCP should combine also be together hundred plus billion.
- ▶ 43:34 Sachin Aggarwal AWS.
- ▶ 48:45 Sachin Aggarwal Uh, they are migrating from AWS to GCP.
6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- ▶ 11:40 Viral Bajaria We had to go to their systems, their own Amazon clouds and do it.
- ▶ 59:27 unnamed speaker AWS. 3 times in the scene
Ola, Flipkart & Swiggy use This $800 Million Software to Send Notifications | Raviteja, MoEngage
- ▶ 27:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia But what you pay to your vendors like AWS or cloud vendors would be equal to your counterparts.
15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:10:34 unnamed speaker Then you went back to MNC at AWS. 4 times in the scene
$1Billion CRM From India Competing With Salesforce | Nilesh Patel, LeadSquared
- ▶ 24:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like India, I w I was head of, um, Amazon web services, SaaS ecosystem in India, uh, before. 2 times in the scene
10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- ▶ 55:08 Avnish Bajaj You know, it is effectively open AI plus, uh, uh, Nvidia, uh, plus your, uh, Microsoft or AWS all in one, right?
$600M AUM, 44 Bets, and a 30x Return Unicorn: Stellaris Venture Partners on Picking Winners Early
- ▶ 1:11:13 Alok Goyal AWS came in 2006, which means that there was almost a 10 year period where cloud, if you wanted to do something on the cloud, you build your own cloud, right?
Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 35:10 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And I heard, uh, like AWS, like CEOs of these companies, for example, Mark Benio from Salesforce, he was having dinner with Jensen Huang and trying to convince him to give him some more, trying to buy some more chips for AI.
Entrepreneur First’s Founder On Indian Talent, AI Startups, Selling SaaS Globally And Silicon Valley
- ▶ 7:57 Matt Clifford You just use AWS, or Google, or Azure, or whatever, and you know, like, they will pay you to do that, at least to begin with.
- ▶ 44:28 unnamed speaker Yeah, and I think the timing is right to think of cloud for you, like what AWS and GCP did to compute, like what you mentioned, it was so hard for a founder to get a storage, processing power, everything went on to the cloud.
These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:12:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Let's say AWS, GCP, Azure. 2 times in the scene
VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
- ▶ 55:42 Arjun Sethi So AWS acquires companies, right, that are open source as well as closed source.
Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
- ▶ 39:41 Manoj Agarwal And you also see like there are, uh, at least on the enterprise B to B mindset and there are Google came in, like, especially with the Google cloud that you see that they established here, AWS came in, not Amazon.com, but AWS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:36 Manoj Agarwal AWS, like, even just when you go and look at each of the services that you go and consume today out of AWS, back then each of those services were multiple companies before, and required a specialized skill set for you to be able to even go… 2 times in the scene
MUST WATCH for Indians Abroad - Remote Work, House Help & More | Kovai.co Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 38:39 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Even like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud.
- ▶ 44:56 Saravana Kumar Anybody can build anything, uh, you know, like, uh, thanks to all the cloud providers like AWS, and because, uh, 1520 years ago, if you wanted to host something at this scale, you know, like, uh, your initial investment will be like a few…
Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- ▶ 49:03 Vijay Rayapati Uh, I think there was a point where, um, we built one of the largest data processing systems on AWS. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:55 Vijay Rayapati So, uh, and attending, like, a lot of events, uh, you know, AWS, cloud user groups.
Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- ▶ 31:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, then I thought, let me try with Amazon web services, the largest SaaS company in the world that we try to observe.
Podcasting to Investing: Breakdown of Our Journey | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 0:27 Nansi Mishra There were many people who were telling you not to join AWS.
- ▶ 4:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia What happened is, after Prime, I joined Amazon Web Services, and Amazon Web Services allowed you to invest. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 Nansi Mishra I think when you got the opportunity from Prime Venture Partners and you got selected in AWS, you kind of got that confidence. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 Nansi Mishra So, that's like, you got into prime insures, then you got into AWS,
- ▶ 11:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia For example, Vijay is building for employee experience because everybody knows that employee experience, even when I was at AWS, is broken, right?
Breaking Down India's B2B Digital Payment Ecosystem with Cashfree CEO Akash Sinha
- ▶ 17:30 Akash Sinha Again, you coming from AWS web background, right?
WeWork In India - The Untold Story with CEO Karan Virwani | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 26:35 Karan Virwani These were for these innovation teams or it was an AWS outfit that Amazon was looking at.
5 Most Important Decisions of Our Lives | Journey of Siddhartha & Nansi, Founders, 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 11:23 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So what happened is, before applying to Prime, I had also applied to Amazon Web Services, and they took like six months to interview, and after like three to four months at Prime, I finally got a call that, hey, you are selected for… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:39 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Amazon Web Services India.
Scaling From 0 to 120Cr+ Revenue Playbook For SaaS-Entrepreneurs in India Ft. Yamini Bhat, CEO-Vymo
- ▶ 29:52 Yamini Bhat Cloud SaaS company in the world, not AWS, uh, right?
Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix
- ▶ 22:35 Dheeraj Pandey I mean, you look at AWS is doing probably fifty billion now, but initially when they started, yeah, seventy billion now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:10 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Somewhere it has to start in the seats of AWS. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:52 Dheeraj Pandey They're learning open source, and developers, and embracing developers of all kinds, not just Windows, but also Linux, and AWS, and you know, AIML developers who will never use Azure, but might end up using Google Cloud products, and so on.
- ▶ 56:50 Dheeraj Pandey Like our AWS bills, uh, till very recently was a thousand bucks a month or something, you know.
The Story Behind Building 100x Entrepreneur Ft. Siddhartha Ahluwalia & Nansi Mishra
- ▶ 20:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So once I left prime in 2000, early 2020, I think it was Feb, I joined Amazon Web Services because there was only one reason for me, you know, like I think prime was the most wonderful venture capital form by culture. 2 times in the scene
Yadhu Gopalan On His Journey, Meeting His Co-Founder & Learnings From Amazon & Microsoft!
- ▶ 3:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia At Amazon, Yadu designed the backend solutions for the first Fire OS and AWS before he owned system engineering for Amazon Go.
HOW They're Competing With ADOBE! ft. Satej Sirur, Founder @Rocketiumapp
- ▶ 5:54 Satej Sirur I worked at a SaaS startup in New York for a few years, and then AWS in Seattle also for a few years. 3 times in the scene
SaaS from India to the US: Myths Debunked ft Anand Jain, Co-founder, CleverTap
- ▶ 24:04 Anand Jain You know, um, I think AWS has their own initiative on SaaS.
@firstcheque7252 CEO on Early Stage Investing and investments from founders ft. Kushal Bhagia
- ▶ 20:43 Kushal Bhagia So everything from AWS, Notion, Webflow, Zoho, Freshworks, like you name it, whatever tool or startup might need in the first one to two years, they will get some discounts or either they'll get completely free or they'll get some heavy…
Hasura Founder on Building For Developers ft. Tanmai Gopal
- ▶ 30:11 Tanmai Gopal So we are kind of more similar to AWS or Cloudflare, um, and to kind of take examples from the open source domain, things like Mongo or Kafka, right?
- ▶ 38:03 Tanmai Gopal It's a similar set of people who sign off on saying we'll use AWS for our cloud.
Inside the mind of Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-Founder, Pratilipi | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- ▶ 39:42 Ranjeet Pratap Singh So for example, as one example, we migrated, uh, our infrastructure from GCP to AWS.
Inside the mind of Nishith Rastogi, Co-Founder & CEO, Locus
- ▶ 2:46 Nishith Rastogi Uh, graduating from Bits Pilani, I joined Amazon, where I got a chance to work on the Amazon Web Services platform, very specifically the AWS Machine Learning platform. 3 times in the scene
Inside the mind of Krishna Kumar, Founder, CropIn- the largest Agritech SaaS startup of India
- ▶ 50:28 Krishna Kumar So, uh, for example, uh, AWS, it's also where we pay on the meter, right?
Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman
- ▶ 13:49 Jishnu Bhattacharjee And, and that was the time also what happened is that AWS cloud was just started to, to happen.
Behind The Scenes: Making of Prime Ventures podcast & 100x Entrepreneur podcast with Amit Somani
- ▶ 32:09 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, you know, uh, uh, my, I, I landed a job in prime because of podcasting and later in Amazon web services because of that, because of the network and the meaningful relationships that I had built and my learnings in it.
Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- ▶ 21:29 Sanjay Nath Renegotiate your leases, uh, cut all your non-discretionary customers here to Amazon, AWS, right?
Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures
- ▶ 26:50 Sanjay Swamy And that's when AWS, by the time it moved to AWS, and Amazon called us and said, who are you guys that all of a sudden you have four million server hits, and probably were more, we just couldn't handle the load, right? 2 times in the scene