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He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
- ▶ 33:21 Colin Zima It's like Amazon, but also like Snowflake and Databricks.
- ▶ 33:40 Colin Zima There are gigantic tech partners like Snowflake and Databricks and Google and Amazon.
He raised $75M—but kept his team to 21 people & pays everyone the same salary. | Cos Nicolaescu, ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 57:02 Cos "Kaz" Nicolaescu I do think one of my favorite operating principles is for Amazon, which is like,
He quit Stripe and hit $10M ARR in 4 years—with $0 marketing spend. | Anurag Goel, Founder of Render · PMF Show
- ▶ 8:36 Anurag Goel I mean, it depends on what you were using, but like AWS was and kind of remains a nightmare if you want to spin up a simple server. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Anurag Goel Who are trying to get their deep learning setups on AWS when there was just one GPU type available in the cloud and AWS offered it, but you needed to set up your NVIDIA libraries and all the other libraries on top in a way that was very… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:55 Anurag Goel and it all comes down to organizational DNA and organizational incentives and where the money is coming from for these people and for AWS and GCP and Azure, all the money 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:23 Anurag Goel Like imagine replacing AWS with render.
He shut down his last startup and gave the money back—then hit $1M ARR in 6 months. | George, Fou... · PMF Show
- ▶ 21:44 George Kurdin We created a workaround with this business via like an S three bucket FTP file transfer that required people from both sides, my team and their team to like handle the data.
How this 1st-time founder went from closing customers for $500 a month to $300,000 a year. | Sean... · PMF Show
- ▶ 8:25 Sean McCarthy So most prior to this, I was at Amazon started in Amazon as a global sales leader in Amazon's marketplace. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:25 Sean McCarthy So most prior to this, I was at Amazon started in Amazon as a global sales leader in Amazon's marketplace. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:38 Sean McCarthy And then from there I went to Amazon shipping. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:35 Pablo Srugo When did you decide to leave Amazon and go all in on this? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:10 Sean McCarthy And that's part of what I noticed at Amazon is these guys are just communicating with 40 different threads of these customers asking for different order numbers or tracking IDs or unique identifiers and asking very quick things.
He ran Prime fulfillment for Amazon—then raised $20M to replace e-commerce with AI. | Maju Kuruvi... · PMF Show
- ▶ 1:29 Pablo Srugo Tell me a bit about kind of, you know, you spent some time at Amazon, at Bolt, and then you started Spangle less than two years ago. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:40 Maju Kuruvi One, I managed all the technology that used Amazon worldwide for powering prime fulfillment.
- ▶ 3:24 Maju Kuruvi I ran Amazon global logistics business units worldwide, which was interesting when I was running the Amazon global logistics, that's when pandemic happened. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:44 Maju Kuruvi Uh, and he was a principal engineer at Amazon for 12 years. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:57 Maju Kuruvi And also he was part of the Alexa founding team.
- ▶ 9:52 Maju Kuruvi Like we always had problems like that when, you know, Shopify arguably could build some of the features from their platform, like their app ecosystem and they are becoming popular or Amazon can like start selling some products that became… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 Maju Kuruvi And that's the kind of systems I have built before when I was at Amazon at a global scale.
- ▶ 23:34 Pablo Srugo I mean, you know, today, if you think about a website, like whether it's Amazon or Shopify website, doesn't really matter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:44 Maju Kuruvi Today I have it subscribe and save on Amazon. 3 times in the scene
How this AI founder is on track to hit $50M ARR just 2 years after launch. | Tarek Alaruri, Co-Fo... · PMF Show
- ▶ 4:17 Tarek Alaruri So the concept was, like, you know, if you're a large company, like, some of our customers would be, like, Amazon, BP, Boeing, ExxonMobil. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:57 Tarek Alaruri There's a lot of businesses that people are like fanatical about because I mean, even Amazon, like if you have a package stolen and you message them, they send you the same package back again.
He launched a free product for enterprise customers—then grew to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Bhaskar S... · PMF Show
- ▶ 0:00 Bhaskar S. Let's just say take Amazon through a 15 year journey. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:31 Bhaskar S. So take Amazon, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:10 Pablo Srugo Was that like an e-commerce company like an Amazon or?
- ▶ 25:38 Bhaskar S. So this was when Netflix was not even on AWS, right?
She raised $20M from Accel to replace QuickBooks with AI. | Helen Hastings, Founder of Quanta · PMF Show
- ▶ 20:55 Helen Hastings They don't know the difference between AWS and buying some office furniture off of Amazon.
- ▶ 20:55 Helen Hastings They don't know the difference between AWS and buying some office furniture off of Amazon.
He moved to the US with nothing. Now he does $750M ARR. | Mateo Marietti, Founder of CookUnity · PMF Show
- ▶ 32:35 Mateo Marietti Inspired, of course, by the Amazons of the world, the Ubers of the world, I think like back then real will be users and say, hey, Uber used to take 10 minutes to arrive, now it's taking two minutes to arrive. 2 times in the scene
He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
- ▶ 7:03 Ryan Anderson I believe he had a job lined up at Amazon, I think is where he was going at the time.
- ▶ 8:46 Ryan Anderson Like he knew he had a two, 300,000 dollar a year job with AWS.
- ▶ 9:31 Ryan Anderson And I somehow convinced him to not take the job at Amazon.
- ▶ 30:38 Ryan Anderson But, uh, you know, you could probably pick that book still up on Amazon solution.
He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:53 Michel Tricot So it can be Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, you name it.
- ▶ 6:46 Michel Tricot And that made data affordable for basically every single company in the world, I would say was Redshift, and that was in the 2013, 14.
- ▶ 8:17 Michel Tricot But if, if you go back before the cloud era, before AWS came out, the amount of investment that you had to make to start hosting servers was massive.
His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
He pivoted at $1M ARR—then raised $120M. | Kevin Tian, Co-Founder of Doppel · PMF Show
- ▶ 24:20 Kevin Tian It's hard to build a solution that works as well for Amazon as it is for Etsy.
He exited for $100M+. Then raised $250M in 18 months. | Dileep Thazhmon, Founder of Jeeves · PMF Show
- ▶ 40:33 Dileep Thazhmon So AWS is a good example.
He wrote the book on Account Based Marketing. Here are his GTM secrets for enterprise. | Bassem H... · PMF Show
- ▶ 1:55 Bassem Hamdy Let's say it's Amazon. 2 times in the scene
He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show
- ▶ 7:09 Viraj Parekh Mixpanel, Amplitude, or for a lot of companies, they want to own that data directly, so they'll stream it into their data warehouse, you know, Redshift or Snowflake or BigQuery or something along those lines.
- ▶ 11:18 Viraj Parekh You know, so things like Redshift were getting popular.
Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder o... · PMF Show
- ▶ 34:36 Jennifer Smith He's Mechanical Turkey. 2 times in the scene
How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
- ▶ 7:34 Eric Foster And so you had people who would break into your computer just to use its resources, just to access the internet and just to do that kind of thing, because nothing like AWS or anything else existed.
He added AI to parking lots—then raised $3.5B. | Alex Israel, Founder of Metropolis · PMF Show
- ▶ 5:34 Alex Israel This was kind of the heyday of companies like Amazon go like standard. 2 times in the scene
He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. | Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure · PMF Show
- ▶ 41:49 Wayne Slavin But, you know, an Amazon, an Apple, uh, you know, a Toyota, Tesla, anybody, we can go to them and say, hey guys, we have every single piece to launch your own insurance business in one place.
He walked away from $5M ARR—then built a $50M company. | Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin · PMF Show
- ▶ 19:54 Russ Fradin You know, it's very well covered the way Amazon does this.
He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Found... · PMF Show
- ▶ 1:50 Harish Abbott You know, I started off my career at Amazon back when Amazon just sold books. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:41 Pablo Srugo So what happens after Amazon? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 Harish Abbott And then last one that I built, which was called deliver, which was very much like Amazon prime for small merchants.
- ▶ 9:47 Harish Abbott I mean, because I saw that power in Amazon and Amazon, every time we dial the speed down, our sales went up. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:41 Harish Abbott Like what you see on Amazon today, everywhere, Amazon detects where you are at. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:11 Harish Abbott Even some Amazon merchants who would use us as a backup to FBA.
He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of N... · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:45 Dheeraj Pandey Services at AWS or SQL services, which is databases and so on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:28 Pablo Srugo This is all kind of born out of the stuff happening in cloud, AWS, these sort of things, I assume, lead to that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:40 Dheeraj Pandey Private arena of Amazon because they needed to host their half a million to a million resellers with, and I'm trying to replicate their catalog and all this stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:03 Dheeraj Pandey That's the way Google and Facebook, Amazon, they're all using lots and lots and lots of just servers and software on top of it.
- ▶ 10:29 Pablo Srugo Does the emergence of public clouds, of AWS, all that stuff, which then happens in the background through that, the time frame, is that competitive to you because it's taking loads away, or what's the dynamics? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:35 Dheeraj Pandey I was always a big fan of both Apple and AWS always because there was a developer in me that just loved the way they did it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:30 Dheeraj Pandey You know, I think there are lots of things that Amazon did, which was amazingly different, not the least of which is like commerce engine and security engines.
- ▶ 29:17 Dheeraj Pandey Like the iOS integrated stuff, the AWS integrated stuff.
- ▶ 30:34 Dheeraj Pandey But by 2019, this is 25 years of amazon.com, only nine percent of U.S. retail was e-commerce.
- ▶ 38:41 Dheeraj Pandey So you have to push authorization down into the engine, and this engine is actually open source, so now you're using AWS for a lot of these things, but how do you really convert
- ▶ 38:52 Dheeraj Pandey All your business logic, all your authorization policy engine into queries that actually map to AWS OpenSearch at scale, you know, is a really, really hard problem.
- ▶ 42:51 Dheeraj Pandey And AWS, like, man, I don't know what a public cloud is.
- ▶ 42:54 Dheeraj Pandey Can we start with S three? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:58 Dheeraj Pandey Once I like object storage, then I'll move to EC two.
He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show
- ▶ 7:58 Simon Eskildsen So their, their first product was, ah, you take your Kindle highlights, you send an email every day, ah, taking some of your Kindle highlights and showing them back to you and helping you retain your reading better, but now they have a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:04 Simon Eskildsen There's this, um, have you heard of S three? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:07 Pablo Srugo Like the S three bucket, like AWS stuff.
- ▶ 14:29 Simon Eskildsen Today, the way that we explain it, right, is that you put the data on S-III, and it's slow and cheap, and then when you query the data, it gets faster and faster as we sort of puff it up into RAM, right, and disk as an intermediate layer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:51 Simon Eskildsen And knowing that team now, I know that they would have sat around the dining table and said, why hasn't anyone just put all of this on S-Tree?
He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:08 Pablo Srugo So kind of with the rising cloud, AWS, all these sort of things.
- ▶ 11:51 Guy Podjarny Hey, these companies like Netflix, like Amazon, there are sort of great dev ops teams.
They failed every POC—then grew their cybersecurity platform to $100M ARR in 5 years. | Dean Sysm... · PMF Show
- ▶ 17:19 Dean Sysman I'm just like experimenting or I already have a contract with Microsoft or with Amazon or whatever.
He tested his pitch on Uber drivers—then built a cybersecurity platform to $180M raised. | Casey ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 39:50 Casey Ellis So I came up with this idea for a t-shirt that said, my other computer is your computer, which was kind of a play on an Amazon t-shirt at the time, right?
He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex S... · PMF Show
- ▶ 10:05 Alex Sherman In those days, every large retailer was really struggling with this transition from brick and mortar into e-commerce and Amazon was clearly in the lead and Amazon basically kept investing all of their profits into better e-commerce… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:51 Alex Sherman Building that exact platform in that exact moment when every large retailer had seen what Amazon was doing and wanting to build sort of their version of it.
- ▶ 39:40 Alex Sherman If you look at AI today, the most important shift over the last six months in AI has been the rise of AI shopping, whether it's ChatGPT launching it, perplexity, Google sort of folding Gemini into their shopping experiences, Amazon…
A drug dealer threatened to kill him—then he grew 50x in 3 Years to $50M ARR. | Brett Carlson, Fo... · PMF Show
- ▶ 30:49 Brett Carlson Two, Amazon thinks we're there, so I'll go with that. 3 times in the scene
He spent 5 months working with customers before building—then grew to $10s of millions ARR. | Avi... · PMF Show
- ▶ 24:39 Aviv Leibovici Because we pay a buttload of money to Amazon.
She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. | Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge · PMF Show
- ▶ 36:08 Shensi Ding Like everyone just uses AWS. 2 times in the scene
He bet his house on a startup—took 7 years to $1M, then hockey stick to $100M+ ARR. | Eldon Spric... · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:31 Eldon Sprickerhoff You know, Amazon was not guaranteed to survive. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:47 Eldon Sprickerhoff You had to, there was no going on, uh, AWS and spinning up an instance like that.
- ▶ 36:43 Eldon Sprickerhoff And it did really well, um, on, on Amazon.
TechCrunch called this YC founder a fraud at 18—then he built a $10M ARR fintech. | Sahil Phadnis... · PMF Show
- ▶ 21:28 Sahil Phadnis They'd be like, dude, look, I'm like 10 years AWS, like Instacart, like freaking, um, veteran.
He quit Google, launched Rubrik—then grew to $1B ARR & a $16B market cap. | Soham Mazumdar, Co-Fo... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:10 Soham Mazumdar And the more I dug into it, what I realized was what these hyperscalers, you know, like Google, and now obviously after that, Amazon, Microsoft, all of them,
- ▶ 14:17 Soham Mazumdar And, you know, cloud was a thing, you know, AWS would say, hey, you know, you get these free credits and so on.
- ▶ 33:07 Soham Mazumdar I mean, we, we were agnostic, but we, we were actually the biggest, biggest to Azure, second biggest to AWS, something like that.
He Bootstrapped to $55M in Revenue—without ever having to hit 100% YoY growth. | Stéphan Donzé, F... · PMF Show
- ▶ 11:12 Stéphan Donzé While at the time, AWS was like, okay, you can bring your SAP to my servers, and it's going to be cheaper, but it's the same SAP, right?
- ▶ 32:19 Stéphan Donzé You have a cloud product, but the fast you're putting in the product, they actually in your environment because it's in your Google drive or in your Azure or your S three.
He grew to millions in ARR in 18 months—by fighting with his co-founders on purpose. | Ross McNai... · PMF Show
- ▶ 18:39 Ross McNairn I sat down and did the, my product development methodology, like my old boss for years at Skyscanner when I was there was like, they're one of the directors of engineering from S three at Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:39 Ross McNairn I sat down and did the, my product development methodology, like my old boss for years at Skyscanner when I was there was like, they're one of the directors of engineering from S three at Amazon.
He thought his startup would fail—then grew to $100M ARR. | Rick Song, Co-founder of Persona · PMF Show
Forget PMF—Neil Patel says to give your product away for free instead. | Neil Patel, Co-Founder o... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:42 Neil Patel And then we started adding in other features like doing the same for YouTube and then Amazon and then TikTok and Instagram and the list goes on and on.
- ▶ 23:08 Neil Patel There's so many credits for AWS and stuff like that.
He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely · PMF Show
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