Amazon Web Services
also referred to as: aws
part of Amazon
12 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Mar 8, 2024 by Pablo Srugo · said 75 times in 31 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Pablo Srugo (24), Anurag Goel (10), Dheeraj Pandey (7), Edo Liberty (6), Soham Mazumdar (2), Shensi Ding (2), Merrill Lutsky (2), Jeff Wang (2)
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2026 15 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- 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
- She raised $20M from Accel to replace QuickBooks with AI. | Helen Hastings, Founder of Quanta · 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 exited for $100M+. Then raised $250M in 18 months. | Dileep Thazhmon, Founder of Jeeves · PMF Show
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 52 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of N... · 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 exited for hundreds of millions—then invested in 20+ founders. Here's what he looks for. | Jas... · PMF Show
- Post-YC, he split with his co-founder—then grew profitably to $2M ARR with just 5 people. | Jon Y... · PMF Show
- She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. | Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge · PMF Show
- He quit Google, launched Rubrik—then grew to $1B ARR & a $16B market cap. | Soham Mazumdar, Co-Fo... · PMF Show
- He hit $1M ARR in 10 months—after doing of a full, 180 pivot. | Merrill Lutsky, Founder of Graphite · PMF Show
- Amplitude is now a $1.5B public company. Here's how they beat competitors with a 10x cheaper prod... · PMF Show
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- In 2004, they "almost bankrupted themselves". In 2024, they hit $500M ARR & a $5B valuation. | Mi... · PMF Show
- Why every founder needs to Be Like Knight | Rob & Pablo Series · PMF Show
- He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
- Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
- He raised $11M off a deck. Here's how he launched Clumio & grew 4x to over 8-figures in ARR. | Po... · PMF Show
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
Everything said about Amazon Web Services, oldest first
Mar 8, 2024 positive
Feb 10, 2025
Arvatz: Major cloud waste hides deep in service architecture configurations
“There is a whole concept of like hidden waste that people are not even aware of. Why? Because it's very deep on the architectural level, on the way you configure your managed services, things that you really have to read, like the cloud provider's manual to un…”
Mar 17, 2025 bullish
Mar 17, 2025 neutral
May 19, 2025 positive
Kazi Ahmed: Cost synergies in software roll-ups are minimal versus revenue synergies
“The synergies were much more on the revenue side. I think there were some on the cost side, right? It's like, you know, we, a much smaller marketing team could go across all of them and, you know, a smaller sort of engineering team could sort of handle all of …”
Sep 18, 2025 negative
Ding: Building Integrations In-House Is as Pointless as Self-Hosting Servers
“There have been some situations where we've talked to companies where they're like, no, like our founder believes in like we build this in house and we can be uniquely good at it. And obviously I'm biased, but that is just fundamentally not true. There's no on…”
Nov 3, 2025 positive
Dec 1, 2025
Foster: Early Hackers Breached Computers to Steal Internet Connection Time
“A lot of it in the very early days was all just use of services. Like, it cost money to be on the internet. You paid, in a lot of cases, you were paying literally, like, by the minute, To be on the internet. And so you had people who would break into your comp…”
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.”
Jun 29, 2026
Jun 29, 2026 negative
Jun 29, 2026 neutral