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15-20% Growth for 3 Years Without Adding a Single Hire
- ▶ 18:46 Jackson Wightman So there are, and there continue to be, as there have always been, a range of Chinese companies that are effectively factories that started a brand, and most of these are, you know, OEMs that are playing a low cost game, and they're going… 7 times in the scene
Over Capacity Built the Internet. Vijay Says AI Is Next
- ▶ 27:09 Vijay Rajendran That's not going anywhere, nor, nor is Amazon.
We're Forced to Automate or Get Left in the Dust
- ▶ 11:26 Eric Turney You'd be surprised in the Amazon age people want today.
- ▶ 17:46 Sean Weisbrot Like some people will call, they'll do, um, uh, like they'll do cold email outreach, and they'll go, I'm gonna give you a 15 dollar gift card to Amazon.
300 Enterprises, 30 Countries, and He Still Would Not Discuss the Exit
- ▶ 16:17 Sameer Narkar The AWS again, you know, which is anyways the highest paying thing for, for any SaaS company. 2 times in the scene
Value Lives in the Mind of the Customer, Not in Your Product
- ▶ 0:51 Dan Bilkowski For the longest time, the incremental cost of serving an additional customer has been net negligible, effectively zero for AWS storage network and compute.
- ▶ 3:39 Dan Bilkowski Their pricing models look very much like other infrastructure as a service companies like your AWS computer, Azure, etc.
- ▶ 14:17 Dan Bilkowski Um, and so, you know, I, I could go spend, you know, a couple hours on Amazon reading reviews or, you know, shopping around and looking at fitness websites, et cetera, what I need to know.
Poor People Add, Rich People Multiply - Billionaires Do Neither
- ▶ 30:39 unnamed speaker It's still on my Amazon. 3 times in the scene
Why B2B Companies Moving Reps Off Repeat Orders Are Winning
- ▶ 1:24 David Blue We want to be more like Amazon.
30,000 Units a Year, 17 Competitors: How Neil Finds Products With Amazon's Own Data
- ▶ 3:26 Neil Twa If we sell the wrong data, then the AI engines that, you know, move the internet's data around from Amazon to Google to tick tock to wherever.
- ▶ 6:10 Neil Twa We can go to, um, there's one called syllabi.io, uh, and that you can literally give it your product and then point it at Amazon's URL.
- ▶ 9:18 Neil Twa Uh, but on the listing creation side for say Amazon's platform, uh, for that side, it is literally down to, you know, which product and customer need is the AI engine telling us we're using Amazon's actual data that we now have access to,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:00 Neil Twa And I have a, uh, 99.999% trust in the data because it was given to me by Amazon. 3 times in the scene
She Uses BITES Monthly and Her Clients Never Fear a Bad Quarter
- ▶ 15:43 Sean Weisbrot It was a business where he would buy products that had been returned to Walmart, to Amazon, et cetera.
Rich People Are the Best Evangelists in the World - Here Is Why
- ▶ 16:34 Ed King And then he says, well, I started an e-commerce brand and I did fulfilled by Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:20 Ed King And now all he does is he builds warehouses for small e-commerce brands that aren't going to sell through Amazon and all those things.
- ▶ 23:31 Sean Weisbrot I did not do my research or market validation, but I looked at what else I saw on Amazon in the moment. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:56 Ed King We'll just Google it or look on Amazon and then just moves it all around.
Cash Business vs. Wealth Business: Most Founders Mix Them Up
- ▶ 1:50 Jeff Sauer yeah, 20 different angel investments, all different kinds of companies, um, from software startups, which is the most common one, and usually when you think of angel investing, you think of software startups, um, all the way through…
Founder Market Fit Got Them $4.2M Before a Product Existed
- ▶ 12:30 Rabbi Guha That you have all the Amazons and Shopify's and everything going on.
- ▶ 16:14 Rabbi Guha Consider your options, compare the price, look at the reviews from let's say Amazon or Reddit, et cetera.
Lights Out Factories: When the Goal Is No Humans Inside
- ▶ 34:21 Sean Weisbrot And they're putting it on Amazon with these, with these brand names that are nonsensical letters put, put together, and they're all in caps.
120,000 People Used His Site for Free - He Had No Idea
- ▶ 16:57 Ray Blakney Now I've read most of the major books on Amazon.
- ▶ 18:59 Ray Blakney I'll have to go and get my Kindle to figure out, remember the names.
You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M
- ▶ 7:42 Jeff Sekinger I was still working, uh, you know, in type like the last year I was driving my Nissan Altima to pick up hundreds of shoes from discount outlet malls and then selling them on Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire
- ▶ 32:18 Sean Weisbrot I don't have an Alexa.
He Lost 76% of His Traffic and Refused to Let a Single Person Go
- ▶ 25:21 Vladimir Gendelman Uh, sometimes it might be, hmm, it has nothing to do with us, but I wonder how Amazon address this, or how did that Zappos address that?
From $0 to Half a Million in 30 Days Without Running a Single Ad
- ▶ 11:56 Cody Bramlett Um, and, uh, those ones that, you know, 10, 20, 30 other vendors will sell the same product I have, which is kind of like Amazon.
- ▶ 19:07 Cody Bramlett And people were stealing the products, shipping them to this couple of warehouses in New York, and then selling it on Amazon and eBay at a discount.
They Put In $0 Salary and Still Own a Third of Every Fund
- ▶ 10:25 Kyle Kodawiski So some of these that are FBA, Amazon businesses, um, you know, these are very experienced operators.
- ▶ 12:33 Kyle Kodawiski So some of the most popular ones would be in the Amazon, you know, ecosphere. 4 times in the scene
Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
- ▶ 9:00 Sean Weisbrot Um, and so I saw him constantly trying to figure ways to make money, you know, at a time when you have eBay starting and PayPal starting up, and, um, Amazon was also quite early at that time.
He Raised His Price 3x and Got More Leads Than the Cheaper Version
- ▶ 16:12 Sean Weisbrot That's like what Amazon was doing. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:20 Oshree Cohen Um, and, and I didn't get the job because I didn't know something very specific in AWS.
His Six-Month Relationship Contract Actually Works
- ▶ 30:21 Don Finley I had a, I'll call him a friend, um, an acquaintance that I know, he's the future tribe leader for one of the Amazonian tribes, right, so he's the future chief, and so we met.
Doctors Said She'd Never Have Kids. Diet Changed That.
- ▶ 32:02 Sean Weisbrot And when you look at the stories that have come out of Google and Facebook and Apple and Amazon,
- ▶ 32:47 Sean Weisbrot Maybe they're not actually doing that much unless you're like the president of Amazon cloud, right?
Your Kids Signed Contracts With No Expiration Date and No Way Out
- ▶ 4:51 Ken Cox I don't think it's farfetched that the data that we're putting in our Google drives today, our AWS accounts and our Microsoft accounts, even our educational systems.
- ▶ 10:13 Ken Cox Don't put it in a Google drive, an Amazon drive, anything else.
- ▶ 12:36 Ken Cox And Amazon is doing so well, right?
550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
- ▶ 6:36 Sean Weisbrot Well, what you're talking about is great, but inevitably there'll be someone in some other country, China, where they won't have to go through those things to make it happen, and those products could be sold on Amazon, and you could just…
- ▶ 37:22 Sean Weisbrot I've never, I don't have an Alexa.
AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
- ▶ 22:19 Ben Foster Now, maybe the larger players, the Googles, the Amazons, et cetera, will be making those investments into these new types of models and things like that down the road, um, that will
- ▶ 35:23 Ben Foster I mean, Jeff Bezos has a great one that he uses when he talks about, you know, Amazon Echo or Alexa or, you know, that kind of thing.
- ▶ 35:23 Ben Foster I mean, Jeff Bezos has a great one that he uses when he talks about, you know, Amazon Echo or Alexa or, you know, that kind of thing.
- ▶ 36:16 Ben Foster But is it going to come up with Kindle as like the solution for that?
3,000 Client Q&As Fed Into One Bot That Answers Like Him
- ▶ 21:23 Oleksandr Vysotsky Because, uh, there are some basic services like Google, Amazon, and everything.
Fusion, Quantum, and a Motor That Fits Inside a Wheel
- ▶ 9:00 Sean Weisbrot It's when people return products to like an Amazon target, Walmart, whatever, those platforms can no longer sell those things. 2 times in the scene
He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill
- ▶ 17:32 Nick Jordan We use AWS. 10 times in the scene
They Thought the Equipment Vendor Could Handle the Cash Too
- ▶ 17:49 Anders Lilivik We're going to integrate your AWS to your Google environment and your, you know, all, all your control points that you have that are systematic into Drada and document what you have and what you don't have, help you put the policies in…
- ▶ 24:20 Anders Lilivik So for example, if AWS goes down, we have a backup cloud that we, we revert back to.
Diagnosed at 16, He Built a Company to Kill the CV
- ▶ 19:16 Sean Weisbrot And then I walked over to Amazon to look and see if I can buy it, and discovered that the brand isn't selling it anymore, so then I had to do research to see if there was another brand I could trust, right, and so now 30 minutes have gone…
Every New Level Has a New Devil - He Proved It From $5M to $75M
- ▶ 9:07 Sean Weisbrot Because I, I've been on Amazon quite frequently for different products, as I'm sure a lot of people are, and very often brands will make claims, and then people in the comments below that have purchased the product will go, well, you know,… 2 times in the scene
How a Cookie Invented in 94 Became the Monster Behind Your Data
- ▶ 27:35 Dan Freckling You can go to major apps like Amazon, uh, websites like Amazon and apps like Venmo, Zoom, Spotify, and through this utility, you can opt out and you can update your privacy settings to be safe.
Her Fans Looked Male On Instagram But Her Shopee Data Said Otherwise
- ▶ 37:11 Chris Wong You look at certain things on Amazon.
Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
- ▶ 51:12 Bryan Clayton From the likes of Airbnb to Tinder to eBay to, uh, you know, Amazon, like all these marketplaces that this guy, you know, really takes a deep dive and, and talks about how they got over the cold start problem, how they think about ways to…
12 Candidates Refused the Job Because of One Person on Their Team
- ▶ 0:42 Travis Lindemann So your AWS, Azure, uh, Google cloud.
She Offered Flexible Hours and Still Couldn't Keep Top Talent
- ▶ 9:54 Sean Weisbrot Let's see, you know, who can do as, you know, the most, uh, pushups, maybe we get them to, you know, do pushups every day while they're building up their ability to, to do this challenge by the end of the month, you know, and you give them…
He Wrote the Book on Executive Loneliness After Losing a Friend to Suicide
- ▶ 37:49 Nick Jonsson It's on Amazon.
He Made $5 Profit Per Customer and Called It Printing Money
- ▶ 32:35 Cody Bramlett What are you talking about?
Taught to Survive, Never to Get Ahead: A Poverty Cycle 100 Years in the Making
- ▶ 39:44 Sean Weisbrot So is she going to go through Amazon?
Webflow Calls Itself No-Code But Here Is What They Leave Out
- ▶ 20:32 Uros Mikic And all of that is going to require JS work, API integration, uploading it to AVS and et cetera, et cetera.
They Showed Up to Inspect a Factory That Did Not Exist Yet
- ▶ 25:41 Omri Shafran Slash Amazon.
- ▶ 25:42 Omri Shafran They provide you the Nest, or they provide you the camera, or they provide you the Alexa. 4 times in the scene
Why Men Hung Up After 20 Minutes But Women Had a Long List
Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain
- ▶ 34:59 Sean Weisbrot And I just heard that, uh, Peloton might be purchased by Amazon or another company.
$500K Profit With Time for Family Beats $1M and Misery
- ▶ 43:33 Sean Weisbrot I'm in a group of entrepreneurs that are six plus figure and a lot of them do like drop shipping or they've got their own e-commerce white label that they do on Amazon.
How Do You Build Wakanda in Someone's Ears
- ▶ 29:31 Sean Weisbrot You could buy it on Amazon.
30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead
- ▶ 32:56 Sean Weisbrot I would argue that Alexa maybe has a camera we don't know about. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:40 Sean Weisbrot Amazon was caught where people were being recorded all the time. 3 times in the scene
Microsoft Launched a Free App That Competes With Ours
- ▶ 27:55 Sean Weisbrot That sounds like, uh, what Amazon and Apple have been accused of doing basically like someone made an app for iOS and it was so good that Apple just happened to sneakily launch their own. 2 times in the scene
The Bezos Yawn Factor: Why No-Code Will Feel Mundane Soon
- ▶ 4:48 Darian Parrish And, you know, when Jeff Bezos just retired from Amazon, um, this week, he said,
- ▶ 8:35 Darian Parrish So of course they can deploy on AWS or public cloud, um, Azure, Google cloud as well.
- ▶ 31:04 Darian Parrish You already have contracts with, um, Azure, AWS and Microsoft and, um, maybe IBM.
- ▶ 35:04 Darian Parrish And I think that's ultimately going to be good for the, the consumers and the ecosystem where there's again, competition alternatives, whereas now, you know, you have the majors, AWS, Azure, and Google cloud. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:21 Sean Weisbrot I hadn't really considered it, but like, yeah, you could say, I'm going to deploy to all of the clouds, you know, or all the big three, so that I know if AWS goes down, my, my backups on Azure and Google Cloud are still working. 2 times in the scene
Why Dogfooding Your Own Product Exposes What All Your Data Misses
- ▶ 1:39 Peter van Eyprin With this, you know, vision of what is Google or Amazon or this other big enterprise company that's going to do 45 things well for people.
- ▶ 16:05 Peter van Eyprin The story that I like to lean back on is the story of Amazon. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:16 Peter van Eyprin Store, and now they do everything, and they have AWS and everything else. 2 times in the scene
The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
The Secret Weapon That Quietly Beats Every Competitor
- ▶ 23:41 Frank Olschlager And so when you think about companies like Spotify or Amazon
- ▶ 30:52 Frank Olschlager and I would stream a TV show from, from AWS, but, you know, streamed over the web or over the internet, uh, so that, you know, the, the broadcaster can get it.
- ▶ 53:28 Sean Weisbrot And you see problems like that now with Facebook and Amazon, um, and recently with Coinbase where their founders basically would refuse to stand up for something that the employees thought were necessary or important to them.
The 'No Blueprint' Truth Behind Selling Three Brands
- ▶ 30:21 Moni Georgiev I had to register my company, get that number, register it with Amazon.
Why 'Life Has No Purpose' Is the Most Freeing Thing You Can Believe
- ▶ 4:54 Sean Weisbrot But the difference between, you know, Google's assistant and Siri and Cortana and Alexa is that these big companies have told you what its name is.