Amazon
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21 statements across 14 episodes · 6 bullish · 7 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2023 by Rob Khazzam · said 337 times in 97 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Pablo Srugo (60), Kazi Ahmed (20), Harish Abbott (16), Dheeraj Pandey (16), Maju Kuruvi (15), Simon Eskildsen (14), Sean McCarthy (11), Anurag Goel (10)
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2026 80 mentions in 16 episodes 5 per episode
- He ran Prime fulfillment for Amazon—then raised $20M to replace e-commerce with AI. | Maju Kuruvi... · PMF Show
- How this 1st-time founder went from closing customers for $500 a month to $300,000 a year. | Sean... · PMF Show
- He quit Stripe and hit $10M ARR in 4 years—with $0 marketing spend. | Anurag Goel, Founder of Render · PMF Show
- He launched a free product for enterprise customers—then grew to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Bhaskar S... · PMF Show
- How this AI founder is on track to hit $50M ARR just 2 years after launch. | Tarek Alaruri, Co-Fo... · PMF Show
- He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
- He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
- He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 201 mentions in 49 episodes 4 per episode
- He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Found... · PMF Show
- He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of N... · PMF Show
- He went from 0 to a $210M exit in 3 years—without inventing anything new. | Kazi Ahmed, Founder o... · PMF Show
- He got rejected by 40 VCs & had 6 months of runway—2 years later, he raised $100M from a16z. | Ed... · PMF Show
- He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show
- How $100B Mercado Libre got started—& why it almost went bankrupt after 9 months. | Hernan Kazah,... · PMF Show
- He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex S... · PMF Show
- He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely · PMF Show
- 41 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 46 mentions in 24 episodes 2 per episode
- He grew to $90M ARR, was about to exit for $1.5B—and then, it all fell apart. | Yanni Giannaros, ... · PMF Show
- Why every founder needs to Be Like Knight | Rob & Pablo Series · PMF Show
- He sold his 1st startup for 8 figures, grew his 2nd to $3M in a year—while battling panic attacks... · PMF Show
- He grew to $22M ARR in 4 years—but regrets spending so much on growth. | Chris Walker, Founder of... · PMF Show
- This solo founder bet on AI 7 years ago. Now he has 5,000 customers & $115M raised. | Dylan, Foun... · PMF Show
- How to Launch a Marketplace | Derrick Fung, Founder of Drop · PMF Show
- 5 Steps to PMF with Rob · PMF Show
- How to build great products—lessons from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Deel. | Aaron Goldsmid, Head... · PMF Show
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Myles Shedden, Founder of Chroma | How to NOT Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- Rob Khazzam, Founder of Float (ex-Uber GM) | How High-Performing Teams Lead to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- Martin Basiri, Founder of Applyboard | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- Andrew McLeod, Founder of Certn ($100M+ Raised) | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- Aydin Mirzaee, Founder of Fluidware (Bootstrapped to ~$100M exit) | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Amazon, oldest first
May 1, 2023 negative
Mar 8, 2024 positive
Oct 7, 2024
Brauer: Premium-priced features demand perfect craft over speed to market
“I would think about like, are we an apple? Like, are we apple? Are we a premium? Product that generates a premium price point. And that means we can't ever launch anything half ass. It has to be perfect. It has to be high end. And it's just going to take the t…”
Mar 6, 2025 negative
Chopra: Hardware group buying fails because single returns destroy thin margins
“Amazon is gonna kill us any day because you know, this, you know you know, you make 200 printers, you sell, and you, one comes back, there's no margin. So it's, it was unfortunately learned through a lot of pain that this model is not gonna work as a collectiv…”
May 19, 2025 neutral
Ahmed: Carbon 6 went out to raise acquisition capital, not sell
“Really what we were going out to market for was to raise more money for acquisitions because we felt we were ready to do under the set of acquisitions. And while there were sort of a couple of big niches that we wanted to potentially go after we wanted to go o…”
May 19, 2025 positive
Ahmed: E-commerce brand value lies in operators, not physical inventory
“The acquirer was looking at sort of, you know, the inventory and the store as the asset, and sometimes the owner as the liability, when it's actually completely flipped. This same owner, you know, after selling their sort of water bottle brand, would go out an…”
May 19, 2025
Jun 16, 2025 neutral
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Mercado Libre Avoided Amazon's E-Commerce Model Due to Heavy Capex Constraints
“The second one was Amazon, but at the time it required significant capital because you needed inventory and warehouses and all that. So in Latin America, given what we were just discussing about the ups and downs in the market, it was hard to assume that you c…”
Jun 23, 2025 bearish
Kazah: eBay stalled from innovator's dilemma while Amazon kept innovating
“Then probably they faced the typical innovator's dilemma, and because of the initial success that they had, They didn't kind of innovate in the business and Amazon did innovate a lot and ended up creating a much larger company.”
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Aug 4, 2025
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Amazon threatened to boycott Columbia unless they suspended Roy Lee
“An Amazon executive sees this. They send a letter to Columbia saying, essentially, you need to expel this kid, or we're never going to hire you from your school anymore, and it's, like, a very thinly veiled threat. Columbia sees the letter. They loop me into a…”
Oct 2, 2025 neutral
Carlson: Amazon Will Bankrupt ServiceUp or Make It a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
“Amazon thinks we're there, so I'll go with that. We're pretty deep in the weeds of Amazon. I would say they're either going to turn us into a multi, multi, multi-billion dollar platform, or they're going to bankrupt us.”
Nov 3, 2025 positive
Public cloud's success relied as much on commerce as open source
“And that actually was one of the big things, like, you know, in consumption, you've got to really respect commerce and the way you meter and bill and invoice every month and all this stuff was, I think public cloud was as much about commerce as it was about op…”
Nov 6, 2025
Nov 6, 2025 positive
Abbott: Amazon sales increased every single time delivery speeds were accelerated
“I mean, because I saw that power in Amazon and Amazon, every time we dial the speed down, our sales went up. There was never a time when we dialed our speeds down to say like, oh, could we do three day versus two and a half day versus two days versus one day. …”
Mar 19, 2026 negative
Hastings: Offshore bookkeeping firms do not understand modern SaaS expenses
“The main firms that do this are offshoring and by no fault of the bookkeepers, they just don't know the latest SaaS trends, the latest tools. They don't know the difference between AWS and buying some office furniture off of Amazon.”
Jul 6, 2026 neutral