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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
- ▶ 11:11 Krishna Mehra The other two, uh, have been, you know, kickass engineers from Amazon.
- ▶ 14:38 Krishna Mehra Of course, the floodgates opened late 2000 with the emergence of cloud and AWS and things like that.
The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
- ▶ 32:26 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Amazon, big tech cutting, thousands of jobs.
Money Rules The Top 1% Follow and Others Ignore | Rohit Sarin, Client Associates
- ▶ 17:07 Rohit Sarin Amazon is one of them.
- ▶ 20:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like you said that Amazon survived. 6 times in the scene
The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
- ▶ 4:51 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You were one of the first conversational AI companies, and you were used by large companies like Amazon and many other Fortune 500, right?
- ▶ 20:29 Mahesh Ram And so it's like the Amazon memo.
- ▶ 59:42 unnamed speaker And, uh, in, in the Solvee journey, it was, uh, uh, exceptional that you had more than a billion conversations across all these customers like Amazon.
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?
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 14:03 Mehul Nariyawala And it's unsexy enough that Alphabet is not coming or Google's not coming, Amazon's not coming, Apple's not coming, and if you graduate from Stanford with a PhD in computer vision and tell your mom that I'm doing self-driving cars, she'll…
- ▶ 54:21 Mehul Nariyawala After robot vacuums, the next highest category is Amazon Kiva Robotics, which is really just warehouse robots that can take pallets, also very much like Roomba's flat robots, right?
- ▶ 54:21 Mehul Nariyawala After robot vacuums, the next highest category is Amazon Kiva Robotics, which is really just warehouse robots that can take pallets, also very much like Roomba's flat robots, right?
How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- ▶ 32:03 Baskar Subramanian We lease cloud from the likes of Amazon and Google and others. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- ▶ 47:56 Jonathan Siddharth On one hand, we could be in a world of, I'm going to call it the no fine tuning world, where you have a frontier model, like a trillion parameter or 10 trillion parameter from OpenAI, Anthropik, DeepMind, Meta, XAI, Amazon, Microsoft,…
94% CAGR: What the Inference Boom means for your AI costs | Vamshi Ambati
- ▶ 15:49 Vamshi Ambati It's on Amazon for anyone who wants to download.
- ▶ 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
The “Messy State” of AI & How to Fix It | Ameya, Braintrust CTO
- ▶ 32:27 Siddhartha Ahluwalia With Amazon personalizing search.
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…
- ▶ 12:44 Poojan Kumar The primitives are more, you know, scale technologies like, you know, S three that, that Amazon provides object storage, right?
- ▶ 12:44 Poojan Kumar The primitives are more, you know, scale technologies like, you know, S three that, that Amazon provides object storage, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- ▶ 2:01 Siddhartha Ahluwalia How, let's say today shopping is done by Amazon for humans.
- ▶ 3:18 Sudheesh Nair Imagine you go to Amazon and try to buy something. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:41 Sudheesh Nair Again, coming from Amazon, you know that game.
Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
- ▶ 8:49 Manish Jindal You know, like think about, you know, when you're on Amazon, uh, it tells you if you buy this, you should be buying this.
- ▶ 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…
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 1:01:14 Ashmeet Sidana If you haven't read it, I recommend everybody read it, uh, when he, you know, retired as CEO of Amazon about the necessity for change and the energy that it takes to keep yourself different from the environment.
- ▶ 1:18:37 Ashmeet Sidana Companies like Microsoft, Amazon, they went public at hundreds of millions of dollars of market cap.
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?
- ▶ 54:02 Rohit Agarwal So we have like large enterprises that want port key and one big advantage is I'm not logged into a bedrock or a vertex tomorrow. 2 times in the scene
The $600B Grocery Market Is Obsessed With Speed — FirstClub Is Betting on Quality | Ayyappan
- ▶ 33:14 Ayyappan Rajagopal Without, whether it is Amazon, Flipkart, or Quick Commerce, right?
- ▶ 39:35 Ayyappan Rajagopal Amazon and Flipkart have always been selling fashion. 3 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 52:58 Sudarshan Kamath Having said that one important, um, you know, uh, one important milestone for us could be a strategic coming in who can accelerate our distribution example, example, Amazon, for example, like if you are default on the marketplace, uh,…
AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital
- ▶ 5:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, Delta value are these kind of companies and the context graph is adding because what you are talking about is institutional memory that gets passed on or across the institution like Amazon for leaders, right? 4 times in the scene
Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- ▶ 0:16 Umesh Padval Hosting costs from Amazon and the hyperscalers of seven hundred million and ships worth eight hundred million.
- ▶ 4:40 Umesh Padval The bigger question for me going forward is the unit economics for these companies, because what I heard is the five hundred million of ARR needs about six hundred million of investment from the LLM company they have to pay, which also…
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
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 0:56 unnamed speaker AWS came in 2006.
- ▶ 6:48 unnamed speaker One of the remarkable insights when you look at really good companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, even Oracle, the leadership tenure, especially senior leadership tenure is, as I said, anywhere from seven, eight years to even 15 years.
- ▶ 24:21 unnamed speaker 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?
- ▶ 41:21 Ashish Toshniwal It's either Amazon, Apple, or some heavily funded startup.
From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- ▶ 46:08 Aditya Agarwal Like if you want to build a small model, like using a small amount of money, you can get access to the same credits that people get from like, you know, honestly, like it's amazing that Amazon, Microsoft, Google give these credits.
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?
- ▶ 42:25 Somesh Dash And so you see more and more likelihood of a Microsoft or a Google or an Amazon partnering with certain education startups, healthcare startups in the US.
How Startup’s Should Find REAL Customer Pain w/ 4x Founder Shreesha Ramdas (Lumber)
- ▶ 47:49 Shreesha Ramdas And then you think about, ah, you know, I would put Amazon also in that earlier, ah, category.
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.
Why Finding Your ‘Rapido Bet’ and Surviving Your ‘Meesho Miss is the Best Job | Pratik & Brij
- ▶ 0:23 Pratik Poddar I assumed that this would be a feature on Flipkart or Snapdeal or Amazon.
- ▶ 6:55 Pratik Poddar I assumed that this would be a feature on Flipkart or, or Snapdeal or Amazon.
- ▶ 25:27 Brij Bhushan And those companies are more obvious to think, like delivery for logistics or Amazon Flipkart.
6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- ▶ 7:15 Viral Bajaria Redshift was announced just one day before that we went in.
- ▶ 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
How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- ▶ 22:42 Ashish Toshniwal It's either Amazon, Apple, or some heavily funded startup.
What is Tesla’s Former CIO Building Next? 4 Years Stealth → $4B Company | Jay Vijayan, Tekion
- ▶ 25:54 Jay Vijayan The big thing I would say is .com is real because, you know, Amazon, Google, everyone came out of .com, but there is also thousands of companies don't exist today.
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.
How to Build a Startup in 2025? | Shikhil, Co-Founder Astra Security
- ▶ 43:56 Shikhil Sharma I mean, basically, I think this is an Amazon principle also that, you know, you where you, I think what it's called that you where you disagree and commit, disagree and commit, right?
GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
- ▶ 4:14 Ashu Garg That refund request you might make on a, let's say an Amazon website, in turn is going to trigger five, six, seven to 10 actions.
- ▶ 9:23 Ashu Garg And so if you, if you are optimizing, if you're starting from scratch, you took any website, take amazon.com and said, hey, I'm going to completely reimagine this website to make it easy for an agent to find something that would look very…
- ▶ 14:33 Ashu Garg Ah, by the late nineties, I was starting to use, you know, Amazon.
7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India ft Unicommerce Founder Kapil Makhija
- ▶ 29:39 Kapil Makhija A brand may want to ship Amazon Prime customer orders first over other regular customer orders, or they want to prioritize shipping of a particular channel over other channels because that channel may have stricter SLAs or managing returns.
From 70% Imports to 65% Made in India, India Now Sells Defense Tech to 85+ Countries | Ashok Atluri
- ▶ 33:06 Ashok Atluri Again, if you go deeper, if I am, if I am R&D company, if I don't make payment, my guy is going to go to Amazon warehouse and work there at a better salary, three times the salary.
Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million
- ▶ 30:39 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think, uh, that's one of the reasons why Amazon is so successful and the people who adopted like a writing culture in companies.
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 12:16 Vasanth Namasivayam Like Amazon is one of those exceptions.
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
- ▶ 1:11:29 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Possibly entire Amazon market cap of one or two trillion can be attributed to AWS. 2 times in the scene
Why This Founder Won’t Sell Zomato for 10 Years | India’s Top Consumer Tech Bet?
- ▶ 6:36 Deepak Garg To Amazon or Blinkit or whatever, then it's not a, I don't think it's a, it's a capital-based idea, and
What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 54:19 Kushal Bhagia I think it's the, uh, for me, it was probably Vidit had once told, like before they went up competing against Flipkart and Amazon yet told me I'm going to do it. 2 times in the scene
How To Hire, Train & Retain Talent To Build A Great Company | Vijay Rayapati | Khadim Batti
- ▶ 13:49 Vijay Rayapati Actually, that's one of the remarkable insights when you look at really good companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, even Oracle.
- ▶ 31:31 Vijay Rayapati Even now you go back and look at SVP tenure at Amazon, or CXO tenure at Microsoft.
$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
#1 Reason Why Most Startups Fail - "They Don't Have A Business Model"
- ▶ 7:10 Ganesh Krishnan Take for example, Amazon. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:32 Ganesh Krishnan They started this Amazon Prime service. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:08 Ganesh Krishnan Then came Amazon Music, Amazon Prime, videos, Kindle, books.
- ▶ 9:08 Ganesh Krishnan Then came Amazon Music, Amazon Prime, videos, Kindle, books.
Lightspeed’s $500M Bet On India With 1/3rd In AI Companies | Dev Khare | Neon Show
- ▶ 45:14 Siddhartha Ahluwalia No, they were in Amazon for a couple of years.
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?
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Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 0:27 Raja Manickam Amazon is trying to build their own chip. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:18 Raja Manickam Amazon is trying to build their own chip, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So you're saying ultimately Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are the largest consumers of Nvidia.
- ▶ 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.
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