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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
5 Lessons from Scaling Six Products to $100M+ with Samsara's Chief Strategy Officer
- ▶ 3:44 Kieran Saker Likewise, if your software isn't efficient, if every thousand dollars you're getting from a customer, you're turning around and spending 500 of those to AWS, to OpenAI, to Twilio, to Stripe, it's going to take you twice as long to recoup…
Who Will Win the Go-To-Market AI Race? with Stage 2 Capital Co-founder Mark Roberge
- ▶ 15:50 Mark Roberge Jeff Bezos did not set out to be a book salesperson, but that was the first version of Amazon.
Hitting Hypergrowth with Amplitude's CEO, Spenser Skates: Take Your SaaS Company from $25M to $100M+
- ▶ 19:40 Spenser Skates They'll hire some big company executive from Microsoft or Google or Amazon that's not used to operating like a scrappy startup.
Nick Mehta, CEO Gainsight: My Top 10 Failures as a SaaS CEO & What I've Learned
- ▶ 9:57 Nick Mehta I think it came, or it's popularized by Amazon.
- ▶ 13:11 Nick Mehta They've been at Salesforce or Google or Amazon.
Secrets to Scaling and Growth in an Unpredictable Market with monday.com's Co-founder and Co-CEO
- ▶ 26:44 Jason Lemkin We had kind of bought into this Amazon-like model when Salesforce won IPO that, yeah, we could spend a ton on sales and marketing and, and, and, but our customer lifetime value is 70 years.
What it Takes to Raise Capital with Christoph Janz of Point Nine
- ▶ 23:18 Christoph Janz Um, usually, um, infrastructure has become very cheap with AWS and other cloud providers.
"The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With Dave Kellogg, ex-CEO Host Analytics": SaaStr Classic
- ▶ 20:08 Dave Kellogg Remember Amazon, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:32 Dave Kellogg Um, AWS, Mechanical Turk, the, the fulfillment model, right?
- ▶ 20:32 Dave Kellogg Um, AWS, Mechanical Turk, the, the fulfillment model, right?
Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball's Formula for Sustained Growth + Resilience
- ▶ 15:48 Spencer Kimball Uh, that really got torpedoed by some of the behavior, for example, of AWS early on. 2 times in the scene
How To Boost Your Net Retention Revenue (NRR) to Over 140% with Insider's CEO and CMO
- ▶ 21:51 Merve Nazlioglu We give Amazon vouchers, gift cards, this, that, um, but again, uh, we are even as adults, we are kids inside,
- ▶ 26:18 Merve Nazlioglu And also, if you really want to send them an Amazon, Amazon voucher or some sort of present and recognize them, do it after, not before. 2 times in the scene
From 2 Weeks of Runway to $1B Acquisition: The Founder Playbook with Loom's CEO and Co-Founder
- ▶ 14:01 Joe Thomas And I actually got a chance to do a session with Saster in mid- twenty-twenty-one around a flywheel concept, which is like what Amazon used in order to talk about and think about their overall growth opportunity.
Why The Era of Efficient Growth is Now: The State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 14:46 Jason Lemkin Like the Amazon model, Jeff Bezos was always be patient and in a way, Mark Benioff and others were like that, but maybe we're done.
The Secrets to Building a Global Platform and Ecosystem | Xero Global CSO Damien Tampling
- ▶ 20:20 Damien Tampling Um, the Amazons of the world, we'll spend lots of time with them in their headquarters, with them in the region, talking to them about some of the product roadmaps and things they're doing.
Lessons Learned in Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies: From VMware, AWS and Databricks
- ▶ 1:03 Ed Lenta In technology, which was obviously the emergence of the public cloud, and so back in 20 11, I got the rare opportunity to go and work for a company called Amazon Web Services, as they were starting to set up their business here in APJ, and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:13 Ed Lenta You have to make, as Jeff Bezos used to say at Amazon, you have to embrace the tailwinds of technology.
- ▶ 4:22 Ed Lenta Where the ball is rolling downhill, and when you are absolutely on the right side of history, all of the companies I've worked at, VMware, Amazon Web Services, and now I hope Databricks, they would have been successful with or without me.
- ▶ 13:39 Ed Lenta From there I went down and, ah, ah, took a role building the, ah, the business for Amazon Web Services in, um, in Australia. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:44 Ed Lenta From, from there I got a rare opportunity to think about how we could build a global accounts organization for Amazon Web Services, and by a global accounts organization, I mean an organization that was just dedicated to selling to one… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:06 Ed Lenta Well, we spent a lot of time with that customer Phillips that I mentioned, and we, we started to talk to them about how we could maybe take some of the mechanisms that existed within Amazon around innovation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:26 Ed Lenta Once I was done with that, I came back to Asia Pacific, and I, I, I took a job running, um, running quite a large organization, running Amazon Web Services across, uh, Asia Pacific and, uh, and Japan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:34 unnamed speaker Yeah, but people always complain about the, you know, end of the month bill they get for AWS and other things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:07 Ed Lenta I mean, again, go and look at the, ah, the Amazon business, right?
What's Holding Up Buyers?: Top Obstacles to Making Software Decisions with G2's VP - Asia Pacific
- ▶ 18:30 Chris Perrine Is it the AWSs and the Microsofts of the world?
Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
- ▶ 2:12 Gabe Monroy Uh, in the technology landscape, though, what we saw was everything was about AWS, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:08 Gabe Monroy AWS made easy is, you know, uh, indicative of something that's a nice to, uh, nice to have, not a must have, but we were selling it as if it was a must have, and it was just completely misaligned, and our entire go to market suffered as a…